Note on a Letter from Ministry of Railways Engineer Han Bolin Reflecting Problems of Housing and Rent

(October 12, 1951)

Comrade Peng Zhen[1]:

Please ask the Municipal Party Committee to discuss this matter[2], find a solution, and give a reply to Engineer Han Bolin.

Mao Zedong

October 12

Published based on the manuscript.

**Notes**

[1] Peng Zhen was then serving as Secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee and Mayor of the Beijing Municipal People's Government.

[2] This refers to the problems raised in Han Bolin’s letter, such as some public servants having no housing and being busy all day looking for housing due to the housing shortage and rising rents in Beijing, and the real estate exchange being unable to play a role in solving the housing shortage.