The Emotional Toll of China’s Housing Market Slide ⬇️ | Following the Yuan

As housing prices go down, many feel that their sacrifices and compromises made for work and mortgage during the high-growth era have been in vain.

Welcome back to “China color,” a column that records Chinese people’s unfiltered voices behind macro-level analysis and numbers, as well as field trips by our contributors. You can read all the previous issues here.

The burst of the housing bubble is a common culprit behind underwhelming consumer sentiment, but what does that mean in practice?

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