In China, there is a difference between regular 拆 (chai, demolish) and 强拆 (qiang chai, forced demolition). What are forced demolitions? They are when a building is demolished by forcibly evicting the residents.

From NetEase:

Sichuan Mianyang residential building made into a “castle in the sky” by forced demolition, top-floor resident had not yet relocated

January 6th, in Sichuan province’s Mianyang City is a 7 story residential building, where the resident in the top floor has not moved, but the bottom 5 floors’ stairs have been demolished by excavators, and is now like a “castle in the sky” [building in midair]. The developer says this project is a post-earthquake disaster reconstruction project approved by the Mianyang City municipal government, that all demolished buildings are derelict buildings.

Comments from Mop:

lsjz隐粉丝:

Living in a midair building on the verge of collapse”, the owner is in a mess…

If it collapses, who will take responsibility?

让我们快乐的菊爆吧:

He makes it so you have people but no house to live in. You make it so he has a house but no one to live in it. Why not?

拉灯大爷:

As someone from Mianyang, this occurrence makes me feel profound tragedy.

心性凉薄:

A house purchased with an entire youth of toiling, only to be taken back by the government 70 years later, and the land again sold to another developer. I hope the next generation is not like me, that they will have a house that they can leave for several generations of descendants to live in. How great that would be.

mushu兔:

Where? I will go be an onlooker.

我是新时代的草泥马:

Born in this society, whatever happens, none of it surprises me anymore. I won’t hide myself. Come [across provinces to] arrest me.

一个被黑过的人:

Lou zhu you swear this wasn’t caused by an earthquake?

师太别跟贫道抢秃驴:

A building on the verge of collapse, a political power on the verge of collapse.

yizhongcr:

The earthquake didn’t bring it all down, but the forced demolition team sure fucked it. Nothing to say, really.

完美吉恩号:

If it were Brother Tao’s [Hu Jintao] home, it would still be: Demolish it!

Sometimes property developers are ruthless. Sometimes nail-house residents are greedy. What do you think is usually the case?