According to reports, Foshan's transfer of self-sustaining homestead is a response to the "rent-and-purchase" living system, providing one more possibility to supply urban housing varieties: in addition to commercial housing, affordable housing and individual landlords, providing institutionalized rental housing and returning the house to the essence of living has a positive effect on increasing housing supply and stabilizing housing prices.
According to the relevant policies, all self-sustaining commercial houses of enterprises should be used for public leasing, and they should not be sold or transferred. The single lease term for external leasing should not exceed 20 years, and it should not exceed the self-sustaining period agreed in the land transfer contract.
Enterprises should give priority to the development of self-sustaining commercial housing. Self-sustaining commercial housing should be designed synchronously with the commercial housing on the plot, the corresponding supporting infrastructure and public facilities, and started, completed and delivered according to the land transfer contract. In principle, enterprises' self-sustaining commercial houses should be built in units of buildings, and the layout is relatively centralized. If the project is developed by stages, the enterprise's self-sustaining commercial housing will be completed in the first and second phases; In the first phase, the construction area of self-sustained commercial housing of the enterprise is not less than 50% of the total construction area of self-sustained commercial housing of the project enterprise.
The policy also clarifies that enterprises' self-sustaining commodity houses should all be used for rent, and they should not charge rent for more than one year at a time, or sell the right to use self-sustaining commodity houses in a disguised form, or bundle them. In addition to the deposit, rent, property management fees and other reasonable expenses arising from the use of the house, the enterprise shall not charge the lessee extra fees under any name. Encourage enterprises to apply to the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Administration for the identification of commercial houses that have been completed and accepted and have not been sold.