China’s ‘rotten-tail buildings’: homebuyers in limbo for years with no home due to dodgy developers and red tape | South China Morning Post

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‘Rotten-tail buildings’: bad developers, red tape leave many Chinese homeless

https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3175973/chinas-rotten-tail-buildings-homebuyers-limbo

Chinese homebuyers who fall afoul of broke developers and bureaucratic disinterest sometimes wait a decade to move into dream homes which often have no power, water or basic amenities.

‘Rotten-tail buildings’: bad developers, red tape leave many Chinese homeless

A survey conducted this year found over 45 per cent of homebuyers in mainland China encounter unfinished building problems

Unfinished or ‘rotten-tail buildings’, as they are known in China, usually have no electricity, no running water, lifts that do not work and no sewage system