A Study on Shenzhen’s Public Housing Policy to Address the Brain Drain Problem: A Sample of Affordable Rental Housing

In order to deal with the brain drain issue brought about by the housing problem, the Shenzhen government has implemented an affordable rental housing policy to try to overcome the issue. So far, this policy seems to have eased the brain drain issue to a certain degree. This study uses the Smith Model as an analyzing tool to examine policy performance. According to the Smith Model, idealized policy, implementing organisation, target group, and environmental factors four perspectives are used to analyse and examine whether the policy has successfully overcome the social issue. Through using the Smith Model, this study finds out that the existing Shenzhen affordable housing policy has basically dealt with the brain drain issue in Shenzhen, while there are still some gaps in the policy.