Developers in China chose to construct a highway bridge around a small home after its owner stubbornly withstood deals to offer it for more than a years.
The structure is the current example of Chinese ‘nail houses’ – or ‘dingzihu’ in Mandarin – where property owners decline pay-offs to hand their residential or commercial property over for demolition.
Footage launched by regional media reveals the little house firmly sandwiched in between 2 lanes of the recently opened Haizhuyong Bridge in Guangzhou.
According to Guangdong TELEVISION station the single-storey residential or commercial property consists of a 40-square-metre flat and beings in the middle of 4 lanes of traffic.
The owner, called just as Ms Liang, stated she declined to offer up due to the fact that the federal government did not provide her a replacement house in an ideal location.
She included that she mored than happy handling the effects and does incline what anybody else believes.
The ‘nail house’ went viral after images and video footage of it were published to social networks.
Authorities in Haizhu district stated the plot had actually been allocated for demolition back in 2010, Guangzhou Daily reports.
Ms Liang is the only individual out of 47 families and 7 companies still there.
All of the others had actually abandoned and moved in other places by last September, authorities stated.
The federal government stated it had actually provided numerous flats along with money settlement plans, however she had actually turned them all down.
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