【摘要】 住房能够满足人们多种层次的需求,是促进家庭流动的社会表征之一。此外,住房也能够检验新加坡提供基本福利物品,以及应对不断壮大的中产阶级日益摒弃公共住房这一批量化生产的消费品、追求更高居住品质时的管控能力。高端私人住房需求已经影响到了新加坡的发展轨迹,此种需求能否得到满足甚至成为获取中产阶级持续政治支持的谈判筹码。为了证实渴望获得私人住房的房屋所有者的一般态度,作者进行了问卷调查。文章讨论了1960年后新加坡住房政策背后的基本原理,尤其是深入探究了为何有效的公共住房提升要与质量更好、社会地位更高的私人住房相结合,即便国家为改善公共住房质量做出了不懈努力之后依然如此。20世纪90年代早期的住房价格螺旋上升使许多人失去了住房购买力。制定未来规划以满足人们对私人住房的偏好与需求时,也不得不面对许多困难,诸如高房价、土地有限且固定、竞相使用中央公积金(Central Provident Fund)作为购房主要融资来源等等。或许更为可行的方法是缩小公共住房和私人住房在土地使用期限等方面的差距,目前政府也在着手研究这一办法。更多还原

【Abstract】 Housing can meet people’s needs on a variety of levels and is a social representation that motivates household mobility. Housing also tests the state’s ability to manage basic welfare provision as well as aspirations for improved quality and status as the middle class rises in numbers and increasingly rejects public housing as a mass-produced consumer good. This demand for higher-end private housing has exerted pressure on the developmental path of Singapore,and meeting this demand has become a bargaining chip for the continued political support of the middle class. A questionnaire survey was conducted which confirmed the general attitude of housing owners who aspire to obtain private housing. The paper discusses the rationale underlying Singapore’s housing policy since 1960. It investigates specifically why effective public housing promotion has to be combined with private housing,perceived as better in quality and higher in status,despite continued state efforts to upgrade public housing quality. A price spiral in the early 1990s has,however,made housing unaffordable for many. Future plans to satisfy aspirations and demand for private housing face difficulties such as high prices,a small and fixed land supply,and competition to use the Central Provident Fund as a chief financing source. A more viable way,perhaps,is to narrow the gap,including in tenure rights,between public and private housing. This is currently being studied by the government.更多还原