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China's 1.4 billion population isn't enough to fill the country's empty homes, former official says (www.businessinsider.com)

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

In a planned economy, it wouldn't be unexpected to over-build. In fact

I wouldn't call that over building though, and that wouldn't explain hundreds of millions of extra homes. Building that aren't being used begin to break down quite rapidly.

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