Sept 18 — Zhang Xuetao, director of the Real Estate Market Supervision
Department at the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said at a
State Council Information Office briefing the ministry will refine a
housing-assistance system centered on rental-assigned and sale-assigned social
housing. It will combine rental subsidies with in‑kind housing provision, build
and procure according to demand, and require prefecture-level cities and
eligible counties to improve housing-assistance waiting lists (registries).
