"Yeah, that's the one. Back then the district even specially sent cars to bring our village representatives here to look at this development. At that time construction hadn't stopped yet, everyone thought it was pretty good. The only downside was that the place was too remote, but the district cadres said this area was going to be planned as the new city center in the future. As soon as people heard that, they were over the moon, so of course they signed without a second thought."
Thea Sykes let out a sigh as she spoke.
What happened next stopped being so wonderful.
The district moved very fast.
They gave the villagers one month to move out.
They'd originally agreed that before the development was handed over, every household would get a 1,500-yuan monthly housing subsidy.
They only received that subsidy for three months.
In the fourth month, the money stopped arriving on time.
