Beijing's housing authorities have issued a notice saying a tenant should not have less than 5 square meters of living space and not more than two people should share one rented room. Is the ban on group rentals justified? The views of China Daily's mobile-phone news readers follow:

Renting out an apartment to multiple tenants should be banned. For one thing, most of such apartments are restructured into cubicles and bunks and become fire hazards posing a threat to other people in the building. Living conditions in such apartments are appalling, to say the least. Also, poor security in residential buildings puts other tenants at risk, especially because many such apartments are not registered as "dormitories" and lack proper supervision.

MANMAN, Tianjin