2024-11-14T20:40:08-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/62123448/chinese-highway-builds-around-nail-house-protesting-development Archinect 2012-11-25T13:00:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/yf/yfoo859jt45doqhx.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Luo Baogen and his wife are the lone holdouts from a neighborhood that was demolished to make way for the main thoroughfare heading to a newly built railway station on the outskirts of the city of Wenling in Zhejiang province. "Nail house" families occasionally have resorted to violence. Some homeowners have set themselves on fire in protests. Often, they keep 24-hour vigils because developers will shy away from bulldozing homes when people are inside.</p></em><br /><br /><p> <img alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/ed/ed14b06f138b43b5fd1ba8ffd0578826.jpg" title=""></p>