What is a capsule room?

Capsule room is the product of soaring housing prices. The main characteristics of capsule room are small area and low price, so it is named as capsule because of its small size. The average house is divided into several rooms, so each room is very small, like a capsule.

For example, an owner from Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, converted his six-story private house into a 55-room "capsule apartment". It is reported that in high-consumption and low-income areas of China, the rent of this kind of capsule apartment is lower. The smallest room in the capsule room is only 4.5 square meters. Users living in buildings usually have their own bathrooms and kitchens, and share the living room with one or more people.

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The specific policies and measures of capsule room are as follows:

The first is to build new small and medium-sized rental housing. All localities are required to incorporate new rental housing into housing development planning, reasonably determine the scale of rental housing construction, and carry out rental housing construction in an orderly manner. It is necessary to consider the total supply and scale, as well as the structural proportion of Xing Tao, so as to better meet the rental consumption demand.

The second is to allow commercial housing to be converted into rental housing according to regulations.

At present, due to the adjustment of business model and other factors, some cities have vacated some commercial buildings, some commercial buildings are idle or semi-idle, and some commercial buildings under construction are expected to have poor market prospects.

In particular, these commercial houses often have good location, good supporting facilities and convenient transportation. Therefore, transforming these houses into rental housing can meet the needs of rental housing.

It can not only increase the effective supply of housing rental, but also make the best use of it and avoid wasting resources. For commercial housing projects whose land use is adjusted to residential land, in order to reduce the tenant's use cost, the prices of water, electricity and gas shall be implemented according to the residents' standards. According to the actual situation, all localities should study and formulate specific operational measures for transforming commercial housing into rental housing.

Third, the existing houses are allowed to be rented out after being rebuilt according to the requirements of safety, comfort and convenience, but the original facilities such as fire partition, safe evacuation and fire separation must not be changed, and the fire control facilities must be guaranteed to be in good condition and effective.

We ask all localities to strengthen the supervision of this behavior, study and formulate measures such as the conditions for renting existing houses by rooms after renovation, the standard of per capita living area, and the maximum number of people living in a single room to ensure housing safety.

There are some places to explore. For example, last year, Shanghai issued a policy to allow eligible living rooms to be converted into separate rented rooms, which is commonly called "N+ 1" in the industry. From the practice of various places, this will increase the effective supply of small and medium-sized rental housing. Second, the rent burden of tenants can be appropriately reduced. Third, it is conducive to standardizing the decoration and rental behavior of private houses.

Reference source; Baidu encyclopedia-capsule room