Demolition is the dream of many Chinese, because a large number of facts in the past show that when you encounter demolition, your life is likely to change, and even achieve "class leap".
But for ordinary people, demolition is a small probability event after all, and even sometimes, even if it encounters demolition, it may not be successful in the end, the so-called "nail households" refer to those who could have been demolished, but refused to be demolished for various reasons.
The most common reason is that the compensation for demolition cannot be negotiated, the demolition party hopes to lose less money, and the demolished party hopes to lose more money.
In Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, there is one such family. The house of this family is two three-storey buildings, built side by side, and now the house is surrounded by a green belt, and what is even more strange is that the house is surrounded by a 10-meter-high earthen wall on all sides, so that it is difficult to find the existence of the house when looking at it from the ground, and only aerial photography in the air can make the house show its true face.
In the summer of 2021, Zhengzhou ushered in a rare rainstorm, due to the low terrain of the two buildings, the entrances and exits were blocked by rainwater-carried sediment, and there was also deep water at the entrance.
Fortunately, the people living in the building had already moved out in advance and were not harmed by the torrential rain. But even so, the residential value of these two houses has been greatly reduced, and in the long run, there is even a risk of collapse.
Who would have built a house in such a deep pit? And for what reason did he refuse to be demolished, so that he became the situation he is today?
The owner of the two buildings, surnamed Zheng, is an uncle in his seventies. But in fact, the house belongs to the uncle's two sons, one son and one building, but Uncle Zheng's two sons do not live in the village, so he is the only one who lives after the house is built.
Uncle Zheng's village has been relocated as early as 2016, and now there are only two buildings left in his family.
The fact that the other villagers are willing to relocate is enough to show that the compensation given by the demolition party is reasonable, otherwise everyone is not a fool, and they will move out obediently knowing that they will suffer losses.
If this is the case, then why is only Uncle Zheng who refuses to move out and refuses to accept the demolition agreement? Could it be that he has a special emotional sustenance for the two buildings, or is it that the lion opened his mouth and offered a sky-high price that discouraged the demolition party?
It all started in 2010.
That year, an artificial river was suddenly planned near Uncle Zheng's village as part of the "South-to-North Water Diversion" project.
According to national regulations, there are no villages within 500 meters of the "South-to-North Water Diversion" river, so after the river is planned, the demolition of villages is immediately put on the agenda.
After a year or two of negotiations, most of the villagers reached an agreement with the demolition party, and the villagers received corresponding compensation one after another, some got the new house, some got the money, and some got the new house and the money, in short, they were all happy.
But just when the demolition party thought that the demolition was going well, Uncle Zheng gave them a dismissal.
At that time, he was already over seventy years old, and insisted on adding an additional construction cost to the original demolition compensation, but the reason given by Uncle Zheng was that his two houses were newly built, and if he did not give the money, he refused to move out.
But Uncle Zheng's request, the demolition party did not agree, so that until 2016, the entire village was demolished except for Uncle Zheng's two buildings, and Uncle Zheng still lived alone in the village.
According to the demolition standards at that time, Uncle Zheng's family could compensate for a new house of 1,000 square meters, in addition to a small amount of resettlement costs.
The housing price in Zhengzhou is not low, 1,000 square meters is nearly 10 million even according to the ** at that time, and a three-story small building can be built with only two or three hundred thousand, that is to say, the demolition party only needs to add another five or six hundred thousand to meet Uncle Zheng's requirements.
From this point of view, Uncle Zheng seems to be different from the average "nail household", he does not open his mouth, and his request is even reasonable to a certain extent, after all, his house is newly built, and it is not an exaggeration to compensate a little more than other old houses in the village.
In this case, why did the demolition party still bite the bullet and would rather not demolish the two houses than agree to Uncle Zheng's request?
It turned out that Uncle Zheng had a total of 4 sons, two of whom had a hukou in the village, and the other two sons' hukou moved to the city.
The land under the two houses originally belonged to the same homestead, which was acquired by Uncle Zheng in 1953. When the four sons grew up, Uncle Zheng divided the homestead into four, one for each son.
Since the two sons had settled in the city, only two of the four homesteads had been built and the other two had been left empty.
But in 2010, Uncle Zheng's two sons who lived in the city suddenly returned to the village to build a house, and it turned out that they had also heard the news that the village was about to move, and they raided to build a house, in order to get compensation for the demolition.
What is embarrassing is that after the houses were built, the demolition party refused to include the two buildings in the scope of compensation, on the grounds that the two houses were illegally built.
What's going on? Those who are familiar with China's homestead policy must know that only people with rural hukou have the right to build houses on their homesteads, and Uncle Zheng's two sons have already obtained urban hukou, and even if they still have homesteads in the village, they do not have the right to build new houses.
Therefore, these two buildings did not obtain a building permit, let alone a house ownership certificate.
Because of this, when the compensation was paid, the demolition party refused to compensate for the two new houses separately, but only compensated the corresponding part of the homestead.
But in this way, the money for the two brothers of the Zheng family to build a new house is equivalent to a waste, of course they are unwilling, Uncle Zheng saw that his sons suffered a loss, and he was unwilling to back down, insisting on living in two new houses and refusing to move out, so he let these two houses stay until now.
Although the compensation for the new house has not been negotiated, Uncle Zheng and his sons have already reached an agreement on the homestead compensation, and they have received a total of 1,000 square meters of new houses and a total price of more than 1 million yuan for resettlement.
Uncle Zheng hoped that the demolition party would "return" the money for the construction of the house to his two sons, but the demolition party insisted that they were not obliged to do so, because the house was built by Uncle Zheng's two sons themselves, not forced by the demolition party.
Due to Uncle Zheng's refusal to back down, the two buildings have not been demolished, but the country's "South-to-North Water Diversion" project cannot be delayed, so the demolition party finally came up with a way to enclose Uncle Zheng's two buildings on all sides with soil, causing the level of the entire village to rise by 10 meters.
In this way, Uncle Zheng's house is like being built in a "sinkhole", which is not only inconvenient to enter and exit, but also easy to accumulate water.
The intention of the demolition party is obvious, that is, to use this indirect means to force Uncle Zheng to move out, so as to complete the rest of the demolition work.
Unexpectedly, although Uncle Zheng was over seventy years old, he did not back down at all, preferring that life was inconvenient and insisted on living in those two houses.
In this way, the stalemate between the two sides lasted for five or six years. In the past five or six years, Uncle Zheng's village has become a green space, making the two buildings in the "sinkhole" even more eye-catching.
It wasn't until last summer, due to continuous heavy rains, that Uncle Zheng's two buildings were seriously waterlogged and uninhabitable, and he finally moved out of them.
But after Uncle Zheng moved out, the two buildings were still not demolished, perhaps because the demolition party felt that there was no need to demolish them anymore. After all, the homestead under the house has already been compensated, and the land no longer belongs to Uncle Zheng's two sons.
In the specific environment of our country, I believe that behind every nail household, there will be a special story. The "nail household" Uncle Zheng mentioned above, his story is very worthwhile.
Legally speaking, the demolition party is not at fault, and the compensation that should be given has been given, which can be regarded as benevolence and righteousness.
But Uncle Zheng's two sons really lost the money to build the house, if they didn't build the house illegally, naturally there would be no disputes behind, and the strange landscape of "house in the sinkhole" would of course not exist.
So, it's all about greed. In the face of huge demolition compensation, people's greed will be infinitely magnified, which may be an important reason for the frequent emergence of "nail households".