City governments build low-cost housing for the poor, but only for registered city residents, and often it is available 市政府为穷人建廉价房屋，但只能是城市户口的居民，而它的价格也比农村的房子贵许多。
Du Yang of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences says a lack of low-cost housing for migrants could worsen an emerging 中国社会科学院的杜洋表示，缺少面向流动人口的低价住房可能会使在农村地区出现的年轻劳动力缺乏情况加剧。