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China's 1.4B population can't fill the country's millions of empty homes

by patagonia on 9/25/23, 10:20 PM with 2 comments

  • by nradov on 9/25/23, 11:56 PM

    We can't trust any data coming from Chinese government sources. Independent estimates have put China's real population at significantly less than 1.4B.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/china/researcher-questions-chi...

  • by patagonia on 9/25/23, 10:22 PM

    So, the US economy is larger than the Chinese economy, but somehow China can build enough empty homes to house multiples of the US population, and yet the US has a housing and homelessness crisis…