CHINA: Move to demolish low-income housing

Updated September 13, 2007 20:08:39

China's eastern city of Shanghai is pushing to modernise living standards by knocking down so-called cubicle homes, or "pigeon cages" as they're called by locals. But the government faces a dilemma, as the people living in these cubicle homes are too poor to afford Shanghai's surging property prices.

Presenter: Xiaoning Mo
Speakers: Dr Liang Ruobing, visiting research fellow at the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore; Lu Hanlong, director of the Sociology Research Centre at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences