Housing subsidies cause confusion

Beijing officials yesterday clarified the procedures for the disbursement of the city's housing subsidies, after complaints over some applicants' eligibility.

A media investigation found that a four-year-old toddler in Shunyi district, Beijing, was enjoying low-rent housing subsidies, along with several teenagers younger than 16.

Beijing Morning Post reported that No. 948 of the subsidy beneficiaries on the website of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development was a four-year-old toddler named Chen Zhuo and No. 712 was born in Nov 1997.