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Landlord maintains rent for 2 decades
    2018-10-23  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

THE cost of renting an apartment in Shenzhen has been rising in recent decades, but a landlord in Guimiao New Village in Nanshan District has rarely raised the rent for his rooms over the past 20 years out of sympathy for migrant workers, the Shenzhen Economic Daily reported.

The landlord named Liang Youcheng, 72, started to rent out the spare rooms in his house in Guimiao New Village, behind Shenzhen University, in the 1980s.

For the past 20 years, many tenants have come and gone, and Liang has barely raised the rent. A single room in the village costs between 3,000 and 3,500 yuan (US$433 to $505) per month and a two-room suite will take 4,800 yuan each month. However, Liang only rents out his single room for a few hundred yuan.

“I think it is not easy for young people to leave their hometown cities to find a way to make a living in Shenzhen, so I keep the rent as low as possible,” said Liang.

The landlord treats his tenants like family, sometimes going out to dinner or even traveling with his tenants.

“The longest time that my tenant has lived was for over 10 years, and most of the tenants would like to stay as long as they can,” said the landlord.

Liang enjoys a good reputation with the villagers and tenants in the neighborhood. According to an owner of a shop that makes keys, nearly every migrant worker living near the village knows Liang. The shop owner said that even he had rented a room from Liang for four years when he first came to Shenzhen about 20 years ago.

Another villager told the Daily that Liang had once waived the rent for a whole year for a factory owner who was renting his rooms for the factory’s workers but was going through bankruptcy.

Liang Huifen, chief of the work station that oversees the village, said that when he was young Liang lived alone in Shenzhen while his wife and children were in Hong Kong, which is why he treats his tenants like family.

Liang’s willingness to help others has impressed a lot of people. A staffer from the work station recalled that Liang would always buy drinks for sanitation workers and the people who recycled garbage in the summer.

Liang said that now that he is older he does not have enough energy to take care of the rental rooms, so he had to ask a sub-landlord to manage them, and the rent has been elevated accordingly. (Zhang Qian)

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