Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

Han Zhaozhao was stunned and asked the old lady, "What did Director Zhang say? What exactly is going on?

Eh? No, I was just about to ask you, you cleaned up the back house, doesn't that mean someone is really going to move in?

Grandma, I don't want to let outsiders live in this house. It's our own house, why should we rent it out? The rent is just a few dollars. If someone with a certain temper comes in and we have no support, won't that just cause trouble?

In the future, when there are outsiders at home, it will be inconvenient to do anything. Can you refuse?"

The old lady didn't want strangers to come in, she knew her own business. She had long seen that her granddaughter was a clever and capable person, she kept talking nonsense and doing small things behind her back.

There are many things at home that have to be kept secret. Not to mention anything else, just the food in their house is enough to make people jealous.

She also didn't want to bring in a family that was full of calculations, as it would make life there stressful enough.

"Grandma didn't want anyone else to move in, so I asked people about this for several days.

It is said that all the big cities in the country are handling this "managed rented housing". In our capital, there are many vacant lands and few vacant houses, and the citizens live in very crowded places.

As the military and government agencies moved into the city, many large factories were built last year and ten major buildings were constructed. A large number of outsiders suddenly poured into the capital, exacerbating the "housing shortage".

The pressure on the street is also great. The higher authorities have issued a document requiring that the rental of idle houses be completed within one month. There is a threshold for ordinary families to be taxed. Households with more than 15 bungalows or more than 200 square meters are all within the tax collection line.

Normally, our family only has 12 rooms, which is not within the scope of this rule. But Director Zhang talked to me and said that there are only two people in our family, and living in 12 rooms would be too conspicuous.

Our family is a military family. Other families have nowhere to live when they are crowded together, but we have so many vacant rooms. If outsiders knew about this, they would definitely have opinions, and it would have a bad impact on our family.

What she meant was that we should find tenants ourselves and rent out a few rooms. That way, we wouldn't have to pay the government for 'rent management', and they would be able to explain if someone reported the situation.

Of course, as Director Zhang said, it mainly depends on our own ideas. In theory, issuing documents from above is voluntary.

But Beijing is the capital after all. If we insist on not renting now, we are afraid that someone will be jealous and report us for not being proactive, and the higher-ups will force us to move in with people with connections.

If that happens, we will have no say over our own houses. They will be included in the state's unified management for rent collection and repairs, and the street will pay us a fixed rent on a monthly basis that is 20% to 40% of the original rent.

The street has the final say on who will rent the property, and we have no say on how long it will last. If a bad guest comes in, we might as well rent it out ourselves!

If the tenant moves in, if they get along well with us, we can rent it for a few more years. If they don't get along well with us, we have the right to evict them and replace them with new tenants.

We can also get all the rent without having to share it with the street.

I have discussed this with your grandfather Guan, and he also agrees that we should rent a house ourselves. He was also the one who introduced the tenant to us.

I also met the people yesterday. They were a mother and son who came to live with the child's father. They were considered military dependents. I thought they were okay, so I agreed to rent the back house to them."

Military dependents are military dependents, what does "also count" mean? Han Zhaozhao felt a little awkward when the old lady said this.

After the tenants moved in, Han Zhaozhao realized that her grandmother's wording was very accurate!

Han Zhaozhao nodded thoughtfully.

Strictly speaking, their family doesn't need to rent out the house. But that's only if they have a backer.

"Managed rental housing" sounds nice. It means that the government helps rent out the housing, but the property still belongs to the owner.

However, following the ten years of turmoil, from August 1966, private homeowners were required to hand in all their property certificates, including government-rented houses, private rental houses that were below the government-rented housing standards, and private houses for self-occupation.

From this time on, the ownership of the leased house was transferred to the Housing Authority, and the rent fee book used by the houseowner to collect the fixed rent was also collected. The fixed rent to the houseowner was also stopped from then on.

With a piece of official document, a private house becomes a public house!

In the 1980s, a very small number of private homeowners regained ownership of their homes from local governments, but the vast majority of homeowners lost their properties forever.

This social legacy was not properly resolved until her death.

In 1954, China explicitly included the protection of private property in its constitution. However, in the process of nationalizing the ownership of rented housing, the deprivation of ownership was carried out only according to documents, without explaining the reasons for the deprivation, giving no compensation to the owner, going through legal procedures, and even without going through the general formalities.

In fact, it is a non-institutionalized deprivation of urban private housing. Behind the glorious goal of solving the "housing shortage" in the era of rule by man is the trampling of personal property and violation of the Constitution.

Many people in later generations have discussed this issue, but because it took too long and involved too many families, there has never been a clear result.

Now, her family has no power and influence. They cannot twist the power of the people above them. They have no chance of winning by going against the people above them. The idea given by Director Zhang can be regarded as a shortcut.

In this way, the initiative is in the hands of your family.

"Grandma, where is Grandpa Guan's house? He lives in the backyard by himself. Will he also be interviewed by the street?"

The old lady smiled bitterly: "We talked about it, why not? But his son called the street office and learned that his front yard has been rented out, leaving only five rooms in the back yard. It's not enough for them to stay when they come back to visit, so it can't be rented out anymore."

Her son is gone. If he were still alive, she believes the street office would never come to her house to do the work.

The old lady thought about it and felt quite uncomfortable. It was a reality that people would forget about her after she left.

The old lady was in a bad mood, and Han Zhaozhao felt uncomfortable too.

She decided to meet the tenant tomorrow and if it was okay with her, she would stay; if not, she would refuse.

Although her parents were gone, their army was still there. Although she had never met her parents' leaders, she knew the army logistics leader who came to handle the funeral.

Including the time they came to deliver pension and help with the burial arrangements for his parents, Han Zhaozhao had met them twice.

One of them was called Zeng Bin, and the other seemed to be surnamed Gao. She forgot his name, but she remembered his appearance and would definitely recognize him if they met.

There was really no other way, so she went to the army to ask them for help. When she first came to their house, they had told her that if she had any difficulties, she could go to the army and they would not ignore her.

Their family also has a backer!

However, they should solve problems that they can solve by themselves. They cannot ask the army for help every time they encounter problems. The more they use friendship, the thinner it becomes. Unless it is a critical moment, they cannot trouble the army.

At night, lying on his big kang, Han Zhaozhao was so excited that he couldn't sleep.

I couldn't sleep well because of the clanging noise on the train, so I made up my mind to sleep for a day and a night when I got home.

I'm really home now. My cerebral cortex is so excited that I'm not sleepy at all.

If you’re not sleepy, then don’t sleep!

Han Zhaozhao enters the space to work!

The space was filled with the fragrance of flowers. The fruit trees and most of the plants were in full bloom. Industrious little bees were buzzing around, busy collecting nectar.