According to reports in a Chinese newspaper, Shanghai has changed its’ rental laws to stop people living and sleeping in rooms other than the bedroom.
The new policies soon to be put place in the city enforce that residents have at least five square metres to live in to stop the practise of overcrowded apartments.
The amendments emphasise the importance of space, limiting citizen’s ability to rent out rooms such as kitchens and closets. These practises are increasingly more common in Shanghai as rents rise; but the new regulations coming into force are to try and make people think twice about renting that extra space as a low-cost bedroom.
The new policy is prohibiting landlords from converting rooms like the bathroom into sleeping rooms.
It is reported more than 31 million square meters of floor space was rented in Shanghai during 2010, but of that number, 8% of the space was occupied by local residents, 88% by Chinese from elsewhere in China and a mere 4% by overseas residents.
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