So your alternative is the one that guarantees loss of money every time. For what is essentially a pretty rare event.
In the adult world, when someone hurts you through their negligent actions, you demand compensation and go to the courts for a judgement if they don’t comply.
I know of no law that specifies homeowners are not allowed to leave.
Claiming a developer attempts to do this on purpose to get cheap land is just absurd. It would be far cheaper to make an offer than pay massive compensation. Its just an illogical statement if a person had any sense of reality at all.
Once again Mayor Chiang is in a defensive posture, trying to deal with bad stuff happening.
Has there been a single positive proactive move during his mayorship? Yes I know he went and hung out in Shanghai for a while—sorry that one doesn’t count.
This incident is big enough to elicit a building code change. It’s not that hard to fix it. Just tightening the required shoring standard along with the occasional random checks should do it.
I’m not talking about just construction related issues. Seems like I am seeing random sink holes on the news more and more often. Seems like it would be impossible to proactively do something to prevent them from happening unless they are scanning all the roads/grounds for weak spots.
I would have thought the last one that happened in Yonghe a few years ago would have elicit a change…