Positive news for renters in Guangzhou: tenants will be given the same access to local education as homeowners provided they have a local hukou or a skilled worker certificate, according to GRT Radio.
The move is just one part of a grander strategy to increase the number of renters and curtail inflated property values, which, in most major Chinese cities, see a price-spike near good schools.
Currently in Guangzhou, only the children of nearby homeowners may attend the city’s most desirable institutions, leaving the offspring of tenants out in the cold (or, more appropriately in GZ, the stinking hot).
The newly announced regulation is set to change that, allowing qualified renters to send their kids to local primary and middle schools, provided they are living in the area.
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In addition to curbing the spike in housing prices, the policy could allow dispersed families to live closer to one another than previously possible, according to Here Dongguan.
“Guangzhou’s new policy will help lower the school’s threshold for tenants’ children, enhance their quality of life and reduce their living costs. The policy plays a key role in helping to improve the local rental market, which is undeveloped and lacks regulation, as well as helping cool the overheated property market, especially in areas near schools,” Hui Jianqian, from Beijing Zhongfangyanxie Technology Service, a company that provides information on real estate, told the Global Times.
Some who have paid for the educational advantage, however, are upset by the new rules, noting that school resources are already in short supply and the new influx of people will not change the current budget.
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[Cover image via the Guardian]
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