Open the Sluice: 打開水閘

By Ping Xu

Why can't we afford to live?
Is it just the price-or is the system designed to keep us out?

Open the Sluice is not a theoretical debate.
It's a public letter to everyone struggling to find a place to live.

When housing becomes a vehicle for capital hoarding,
when information is hidden, policies are hijacked, and access is blocked,
what we need is not to "try harder," but to break the dam and open the sluice of public resources.

Through international comparisons, systemic analysis, and lived experience,
this book makes a simple but radical claim:
Housing is not charity-it's a matter of public governance.

為什麼我們住不起？
是房價太高，還是制度故意不讓你住？

《打開水閘》不是一場抽象的理論爭辯，
而是一封寫給每一位無法安居的你我的公開信。

當住房成了資本囤積的工具，
當社會資源被壟斷、資訊被遮蔽、政策被操控，
我們需要的不是「更努力」，而是拆掉制度的壩、打開資源的水閘。

本書結合國際比較、制度分析與第一線觀察，
提出一個核心主張：
居住權不是恩惠，而是公共治理的責任。

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FLVGG9P5
• ISBN13: 9798297151239
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"