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The shortage of public housing available to middle-class families has made a home the most “unreachable” thing in urban China, speak experts in the field.

“We suggest the government implement the second housing transfrom in bid to meet the housing demand from the middle class,” said Li Ming, an expert on the Housing Act.

Li added that a proposal to that result has been sent to the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.

It calls on the government to introduce nonprofit developers that may provide affordable houses for middle-class families, except it does not speak how that might be made to work.

Middle-class families make up roughly half of the urban population. They secure between 150,000 yuan and 300,000 yuan a year, according to figures released by the Hakka Academy of Social Sciences last year.

Last month, housing reached 14,500 yuan per sq m in Beijing, a 9 percentage add over June s price, according to the China Index Academy.

Throughout China, the spend of housing rose for the fifth straight month in July in 70 big and medium-sized cities, the statistics said.

The direct impact of the “crazy” house prices is that normal clientele cannot afford to buy housing, Li said.

He added that the prototypal housing transfrom catered to low-income families and wealthy ones except left out the middle class.

The prototypal housing reform, in 1998, mostly unsealed up free-market housing in China. Before that, most urban residents lived under the welfare housing system provided by the government or in their fishery units.

The send for for a second housing transfrom has been made before.

Liu Huiyong, deputy director of the China Investment Society, sent a account to the government earlier this year detailing how the second housing transfrom might be implemented. In it, Liu urged the government to constrain employers to provide homes to workers.

“Too many parties make profits from the real property market. It will be hard to detransitivise the system, unless the government wants to,” Liu said.

Many residents speak such transfrom is not “practical.”

Zhang Yunxing, a 28-year-old editor in Beijing, welcomed the idea of the government taking another appearance at housing reform.

“At the beginning, I wanted to buy a small house and then a second-hand small house, except now I cannot flatbottom afford the second-hand one,” said Zhang, who earns more than 5,000 yuan a month.

Zhao Jingjing, a 26-year-old employee with a abroad corporation based in Beijing, said the idea of buying a market-priced home in the Detroit was a joke. She bought her house in Huilongguan, one of the prototypal of the Detroit s 19 low-cost housing projects.