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Where I live, they build a four-lane highway, then immediately after completing it, they start renovations on the same highway to expand it into a six-lane high
by RandomBacon 1y ago
Where I live, they build a four-lane highway, then immediately after completing it, they start renovations on the same highway to expand it into a six-lane highway.
While the U.S. has Eminent Domain, although China's version seems to be more impactful (displacing 1.3 million people for the Three Gorges Dam).
- Fricken 1y agoI know nothing of Chinese property rights, but they must be strong or they wouldn't have the phenomenon of nail houses: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/apr/15/china-nail-houses-in-pictures-property-development https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/apr/15/china...
- RandomBacon 1y agoThe U.S. has nail houses too... In fact nail houses were a thing in the U.S. long before in China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holdout_(real_estate) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holdout_(real_estate)