When it comes to the urban commercial housing residential community, we can use the “community decline” to summarize some commercial housing community facing the governance disorder and community dilapidated phenomenon. Why is the community irreparable to decline? What is the root cause of the “community decline”? This needs to be explained theoretically. The decline of the community is a generalization of the governance performance of the commercial housing community. From the perspective of the governance subject, properly handling the relationship between the government, the market and the society is the key issue in the practice of public affairs governance. From the perspective of the governance object, there is a relatively large correlation between the nature of public affairs and the performance of public governance. From the perspective of governance object, this research focuses on “how the nature of public affairs affects the performance of community governance”, and explores how the nature of public affairs affects the rise and fall of the community by acting on the actions of the owners.
Starting from the maintainability of community public affairs, this paper establishes the evaluation of community public affairs governance performance standard, namely the rise-and-fall line of community, and establishes the important indicators of community governance order starting from the threshold effect of collective action, namely the basic operation line. Theoretically speaking, only when the community governance basic operation line is higher than or close to the the rise-and-fall line, the community will not decay. It is found that there exists the correlation between public nature and governance performance, and the public governance affairs of commercial housing community belong to the comprehensive affairs. Due to the threshold effect of collective action, and a need of elasticity of public affairs, against the background of the structure differentiation of public affairs, there is a structural gap between the management level that owner collective action can achieve and the governance level for prosperity that the community can achieve, thus forming the governance trap, which is the root of residential community decay. It is derived from the public governance nature of community governance performance.
Compared with the previous literature, this paper promotes the research on the governance of public affairs in the community from the nature of public affairs in the community. First, it establishes the criteria for evaluating the governance performance of public affairs in the community from the maintenability of public affairs in the community. Second, by combining the nature of public affairs in the community, including demand elasticity and scope of involvement, with the collective actions of the owners, it establishes the correlation between the nature of public affairs and the performance of public governance and also explains the decline of the community from the perspective of the nature of public affairs.
This paper reveals the micro basis of the operation of public governance affairs and provides a supplement for related research. This paper mainly emphasizes that the nature of public affairs is the basic variable that affects the governance performance of public affairs, and the nature of public affairs requires the governance performance of public affairs through the behavior and interaction of the governance subject.