“Sandwich class housing” is an emergent social problem in most cities of China. Where to locate the public housing for sandwich class and what kinds of building layout fit into the needs of sandwich class are two basic questions for local governments. This paper proposed a locating approach to sandwich class housing through the analytic hierarchy process method, which considers the influence of income, distance, time total money cost, school, hospital, store, and neighborhood on the choice of housing locations. As result, 9 candidate locations were chosen as the housing location for sandwich class in Wuhan city.

“Sandwich class” in China mainland refers to people who do not have a qualification of buying affordable housing and price-fixed housing and cannot afford commercial housing under the constraint of their income. Most of them are usually graduated university students and off-farm workers[6, 7]. Under the housing scheme in China, the high-income class can buy commercial housing and the low-income class can rent public housing.