Siheyuan: I am different He Yuzhu

After He Yuzhu left, Director Wang sat in a chair and carefully thought about the plan He Yuzhu mentioned. If the superior leaders agreed with the idea of ​​He Yuzhu's father-in-law Lou Bancheng, as long as all the abandoned houses in his jurisdiction were rebuilt, it would mean that at least hundreds of houses would be added at once. With these hundreds of houses, at least thousands of people could be housed.

However, there are risks. The biggest risk is the property rights of these dozens of abandoned houses. After all, people have spent real money to build houses and give them to the street office for use. If they are not given the ownership of the houses, it is probably unreasonable. But I don’t know if it is easy to transfer so many houses to one person at once. As for waiting for others to build them and then the street office will buy them back, it is not realistic. It costs at least 3 yuan to build three blue brick and tile houses, including labor and materials. The rent of the house is too low now. The rent per square meter is 1000 yuan per month. The rent of this 0.12-square-meter tile house is 50 yuan per month. The rent collected from the tenants is not enough to pay the other party’s interest. It seems that the best way is for others to invest in the construction of the house and let the street office manage it.

Director Wang stood up and wanted to ask someone how many abandoned courtyard houses there were in the area under the jurisdiction of the subdistrict office. Director Wang found Xiao Liu, who was in charge of housing management at the subdistrict office, and asked, "Xiao Liu, how many courtyard houses in our subdistrict office have been abandoned due to lack of funds for repair?"

Xiao Liu quickly replied, "Director Wang, please wait a moment. Let me check the specific data." After that, Xiao Liu hurried to the filing cabinet and found the file recording the abandoned houses in the jurisdiction. After taking a look, Xiao Liu said, "Director Wang, I checked and there are 76 abandoned courtyard houses in total."

"How could there be so many? I remember there were only thirty or forty sets?" Director Wang said with a frown. You know, she had just told He Yuzhu that there were thirty or forty sets, which was almost twice as many as she had said.

"Director Wang did have only thirty or forty houses at the beginning, but those were data from the year before last. It rained heavily last year and the year before last, and some houses were damaged due to disrepair," Xiao Liu hurriedly explained.

After listening to Xiao Liu's words, Director Wang remembered that every year some houses would be damaged due to rain and snow, but he suddenly forgot about it. Director Wang's face suddenly turned embarrassed. It seemed that he had neglected his work. But there was nothing he could do about it. In the past, many people in the city used adobe to build their houses. It was fine if there was no heavy rain. Once there were many consecutive rainy days, many houses would have heavy rain outside and light rain inside. Alas, the people in the past suffered a lot. It seemed that he had to quickly ask his superiors for instructions. "I know, Xiao Liu, you can continue with your work."

"Director Wang, do you need this information?" Xiao Liu raised the information on abandoned houses in his hand.

Director Wang thought for a moment and said, "Okay, give it to me first and I'll return it to you after I'm done using it." Director Wang took the information and hurried back to his office.

After returning to the office, Director Wang picked up the phone on the table and said, "Please connect me to the office of Secretary Qian Dakuan of Dongcheng District."

"Please wait a moment. I'll transfer you right away." The friendly voice of the operator came from the phone.

After a while, a voice came over the phone, "Hello, I'm Qian Dakuan, who are you?"

Director Wang quickly said, "Hello, Secretary Qian. I am Wang Caifeng from the Nanluoguxiang Subdistrict Office."

"Director Wang, what's the matter with your call?" Qian Dakuan asked directly.

"Secretary Qian, I wonder if you are free this afternoon. I have something very important to report to you."

"Then come over now, I'm not busy now." Qian Dakuan said.

"Then goodbye Secretary Qian, I'll come to see you right away."

"Yeah." After saying that, Secretary Qian hung up the phone.

Wang Caifeng hung up the phone and hurried to the Dongcheng District Government Office. Less than 5 minutes later, Wang Caifeng rode her bicycle to the Dongcheng District Government Office. Wang Caifeng came to the door of Secretary Qian Dakuan's office, sorted out her clothes, and then knocked on the door gently, "Secretary Yan, I am Wang Caifeng from Nanluoguxiang."

"Director Wang, please come in."

Director Wang pushed open the door of his office and said to Secretary Yan, "Secretary Yan, I just called Secretary Qian. I'm here to report to Secretary Qian. Can you please go over and tell Secretary Qian?"

"Director Wang, please sit down first. I'll go find Secretary Qian right away." Secretary Yan said and walked out of the office and went to Secretary Qian's office.

After a while, Secretary Yan came back and said to Director Wang, "Director Wang, please go over now. Secretary Qian is waiting for you in the office."

Wang Caifeng came to Qian Dakuan's office and said to Qian Dakuan after seeing him, "Secretary Qian, He Yuzhu from our jurisdiction came to me this afternoon. He said that his father-in-law, Lou Bancheng, wanted to buy the abandoned courtyard house in the jurisdiction of our street office. After the purchase, he would build a new house on the original foundation and then hand it over to our street office for management. I can't make the decision on this matter, so I came to you for instructions." Because she was worried that Qian Dakuan was busy with work, Wang Caifeng went straight to the point.

After listening to Wang Caifeng's report, Qian Dakuan lit a cigarette and pondered. After a while, Qian Dakuan said, "Director Wang, what do you think?"

"Secretary Qian, I think we can agree to He Yuzhu's father-in-law Lou Bancheng. Anyway, those abandoned courtyard houses would be a waste if left alone, and our street office has no money to repair them. We might as well sell them to Lou Bancheng and use Lou Bancheng's money to build houses. In this way, the street office will have many houses to rent to workers with housing shortages, which can alleviate the housing problem for workers and can also be considered as laying eggs with borrowed chickens." Wang Caifeng expressed her thoughts.

"Director Wang, have you considered the issue of property rights of the house?" Qian Dakuan asked after hearing what Wang Caifeng said.

"Secretary Qian, I have considered that if we agree to Lou Bancheng's request, the property rights of the houses will be transferred from the street office to Lou Bancheng. But now these houses are said to have property rights, but in reality many of them are just wasteland, and all that's left are broken bricks and tiles. Although the property rights of the land are in the hands of Lou Bancheng, the management and use rights are in the hands of our street office. This is better than the current situation where our street office only has ownership and nothing else." Wang Caifeng replied.

"Then do you think we can refer to the policy of public-private partnership in industry and commerce, let Lou Bancheng pay the money, and we will give him a certain amount of returns?" Qian Dakuan said after thinking for a while.

"Secretary Qian, I'm afraid that won't work. The interest paid to the private party for industrial and commercial public-private partnerships is 5% each year. It costs about 3 yuan to build three tiled houses now, and according to the rental standards of our street office, we can get about 1000 to 50 yuan a year for these three houses, which is barely enough to pay the other party's interest, but how can the other party repay the principal? And what if the house is damaged and needs repair? If the people living there are asked to pay, many people may not be able to afford it. If Lou Bancheng is asked to pay, the house is not his, and he should not pay for it. Factories don't have this problem. Factories can create benefits on their own to solve the problem of funds for the maintenance of their own machinery and equipment, but our street office has no means to make money. If the superiors don't allocate funds, the houses will be seriously damaged and the people will not live in them, and we may not have the money to pay the interest to Lou Bancheng." Wang Caifeng analyzed to Qian Dakuan.

"Then how does your street office get the funds to repair the houses that it rents out to residents in the area?" Qian Dakuan asked curiously.

"The main source of funds for house repairs is the rent collected by the street office from renting out houses. However, because many houses are too old, the rent collected is not enough to repair the houses. We can only repair those houses with serious problems, and the houses with minor problems are just made do." Director Wang said helplessly.

"If we sell the land to Lou Bancheng, and after Lou Bancheng builds the house, when the house needs repairs over time, how will we get the money to repair it?"

"The house belongs to Lou Bancheng, so he must have paid for the renovation. Our street office is just helping him collect rent. You can't let our street office pay for the renovation, right?" Wang Caifeng blurted out.

After listening to Wang Caifeng's words, Qian Dakuan smiled and said, "You are planning to slaughter the fat sheep of Loubancheng. You are planning to rob the rich and help the poor. By the way, is the He Yuzhu you are talking about the He Yuzhu who was commended by the district before?"

"Yes, Secretary Qian, it's him. He married Lou Bancheng's daughter and became Lou Bancheng's son-in-law." Director Wang responded.

"How about this, Director Wang, go back and write an application and submit it. We'll conduct a pilot program in your Nanluoguxiang Street Office first. If it works, promote it more widely. Then we'll strive to promote it throughout the district and try to take this opportunity to solve the housing problems in the entire district." Qian Dakuan said after finally making a decision.

"I'm afraid Secretary Qian won't be able to do that." Wang Caifeng said with a conflicted look on her face.

"What's wrong?" Qian Dakuan looked at Wang Caifeng with a puzzled look on his face.

"He Yuzhu said that if you want his father-in-law to fund the construction of the house, you have to promise him not to publicize the fact that he funded the construction of the house." Wang Caifeng relayed He Yuzhu's request to Qian Dakuan.

"Why is that? Doing good deeds and getting publicity in the newspaper is such a good thing, why doesn't He Yuzhu want to do that?"

"He Yuzhu said that his father-in-law helped the government do something to help the workers after reading the news about the workers' housing shortage in the newspaper. But once it's in the newspaper, it might lead the whole country to do the same. What if other regions also learn to let local wealthy people pay for building houses? After all, if you only collect rent to build houses, you may lose money. If there is any policy change in the future, Lou Bancheng, the instigator, will be the sinner in many people's hearts."

"What you said makes sense. In that case, let's not publicize it. By the way, did He Yuzhu say how much money his father-in-law plans to spend on building the house?" Qian Dakuan thought for a moment and asked.

"I didn't ask that, but when He Yuzhu asked me how many abandoned houses there were in Nanluoguxiang, I told him about the situation of abandoned houses in our jurisdiction. It seems that he plans to take over all the abandoned houses under our street office and build new ones." Wang Caifeng quietly changed her statement.

"Is that so? Then how many abandoned houses are there in your area, Director Wang?"

"There are a total of 76 abandoned courtyard houses in our jurisdiction, but the exact number of rooms has not yet been counted."

After listening to Wang Caifeng's words, Qian Dakuan frowned and said, "If you say so, it will cost 5000 yuan to rebuild a courtyard house, and your area alone will cost at least 40 yuan. But there are more than a dozen streets in Dongcheng District, what about the other streets? Director Wang, can you talk to He Yuzhu and ask him to persuade his father-in-law to spend more money to build some houses in other street offices?"

"Secretary Qian, I can talk to He Yuzhu, but I can't guarantee whether it will work out." Wang Caifeng thought for a moment and replied, "Secretary Qian, the district should be better than the street office. Don't they have any policies to solve the housing problem?"

"After the failure in 51, there was no further news. The government is now concentrating on industrial construction and has no extra money to solve the housing problem. Now the factories have to build dormitories to solve the housing problem for workers. Director Wang, when you go back, talk to He Yuzhu and ask him to persuade his father-in-law to spend as much money as possible to build more houses. This will help more people solve their housing problems. Tell him that in order to show the sincerity of the district, when buying the land from the subdistrict office, you can give him a discount on the land transfer price."

Secretary Qian said to Wang Caifeng with a helpless look on his face.

Wang Caifeng nodded, indicating that she understood. She knew that this task was not easy, but she still promised to do her best. After all, this concerns the housing problems of many people in the district. "I will try my best, Secretary Qian, but I feel that even if He Yuzhu's father-in-law is willing to pay more, it is impossible to renovate all the abandoned houses in our district."

"I know this. If we can build one more house, we can solve the housing problem of one more family. Director Wang, you should go back and talk to He Yuzhu as soon as possible. Try to reach an agreement as soon as possible and strive to complete the house that He Yuzhu's father-in-law Lou Bancheng wants to build before winter." Qian Dakuan instructed.

"Okay, then I'll leave. Goodbye, Secretary Qian." After saying that, Wang Caifeng left Qian Dakuan's office.

After Wang Caifeng left, Qian Dakuan lit another cigarette, hoping that He Yuzhu could persuade his father-in-law Lou Bancheng to pay more money so that more people living in dilapidated houses could be moved out, thus reducing the number of casualties caused by the collapse of dilapidated houses each year.