Finally, we still have our eyes on the peasants' one-third of an acre of land! A certain place went so far as to directly and publicly issue a document encouraging peasants to abandon their homesteads and buy houses in the cities. What signal does this send?
Yesterday, six departments, including the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, the Finance Bureau, and the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau of Ezhou City, Hubei Province, jointly issued the "Notice on Promoting Local Urbanization and the Steady and Healthy Development of Real Estate". The notice has a total of 9 measures to promote the development of the real estate market in Ezhou City, one of which is very eye-catching, and the fifth article is to encourage rural residents to buy houses in the city.
That's how the content is written. Rural residents in this city who voluntarily withdraw from legal homesteads and dismantle homesteads and related buildings (structures) and purchase newly built commercial housing in the "double concentration" area shall be given a housing purchase subsidy according to the area of the withdrawn homestead, and the withdrawn homestead shall be returned to the village collective for recultivation and reclamation.
How did you feel when you saw this news? I was shocked and even incredulous. How can farmers be encouraged to abandon their homesteads and buy houses in the city?
The reason why I think this article is incredible and shocking is that I didn't expect to finally start with the farmer's one-third of an acre.
To be honest, the current real estate crisis is not what everyone wants. In order to save the property market, the local government encourages farmers to buy houses in the city, and even gives farmers subsidies and deed tax reductions to support their house purchases, which is a really good thing. But asking peasants to give up their homesteads to get incentives and subsidies for buying houses in the city is a different matter, and it can be said that even a good thing has turned into a bad thing.
What is a homestead land? Homestead land is a sacred and inviolable right granted to the peasants by the state and is the foundation of the peasants' livelihood. Good guys, now in order to save the property market, go to inventory, and let farmers give up their homesteads to buy houses in the city to be the receivers, but it is more sinister to ask farmers to voluntarily give up their homesteads.
Originally, it was difficult for peasants to earn money, and their incomes were low. According to the data recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics for the first quarter, the per capita disposable income of mainland farmers is only 6,596 yuan, while the per capita disposable income of urban residents has reached 15,150 yuan. This means that the per capita disposable income of peasants is less than half that of urban dwellers.
With such an income situation, it is already difficult for farmers to buy houses in the city, not to mention that the current housing prices are not low, and the real estate situation is not good, so it is not yet known when it will be an inflection point. Now farmers are encouraged to go to the city to buy houses, go to inventory, and be the receivers. If the property market is still difficult to change the declining trend, then the peasants will not only be trapped in the city, but the countryside will not be able to go back, because the homestead has been abandoned.
At that time, will the peasants have a situation where the bamboo baskets are empty? At that time, if such a situation really happens, what will the peasants do?
Therefore, it is good to encourage farmers to buy houses in the cities, and if there are conditions, they can buy houses and contribute to the country, but if the additional condition is to voluntarily give up the homestead, it may not be a good thing. What do you think?