Give us our flats! The angry victims of China's property crisis

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : China's largest city has a sophisticated court system, with some of the country's best lawyers and judges who are well versed in commercial law.
43% : They are in good company: a group of dissident netizens began collecting data on boycotts across China in June 2022, revealing that tens of thousands of people had stopped paying as a form of protest.
41% : Just months after he bought his flat, the Chinese government introduced a raft of policies designed to cool an overheating property market.
32% : The only channel for talks has been at the lowest level of government, a "petition office" close to One Riviera where local residents can complain about everything from noisy neighbours to small-scale corruption.

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