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Luo Baogen’s house is the last holdout on the new highway outside of Wenling, China. The highway required the demolition of an entire neighbourhood to provide access to a newly built railway station. According to the article posted on Archinect, these so called ‘nail houses’ “occasionally have resorted to violence. Some homeowners have set themselves on fire in protests. Often, they keep 24-hour vigils because developers will shy away from bulldozing homes when people are inside.”
Image from Archinect
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This is an example of where there is little or no Environmental Assessment, lack of bureaucrat controls, and no responsibility to residents by government.