It does depend on the area I remember coming across a few blocks of old densely packed single-family brick buildings in Shanghai that were about to be torn dow

It does depend on the area I remember coming across a few blocks of old densely packed single-family brick buildings in Shanghai that were about to be torn down. Each building had a large hand written banner above their entrance, half of them praising the communist party for its compassion or saying long live Chairman Mao (my interpretation was that they were hoping for mercy for being such loyal party members), the other half cussing out the party and local officials