Chapter 26 Public Housing Becomes Private Housing
"Auntie Wang, I'm working in the Second Purchasing Department of the Steel Rolling Mill. Today I went to the countryside and bought a large piece of bacon, which is a good start to my work.
I bought the old hen and eggs myself in the countryside. My sister-in-law just gave birth to my nephew, so I bought some nutrition for her and my nephew."
Zhang Dongliang pointed at the old hen and eggs and explained to Deputy Director Wang and his wife.
Deputy Director Wang cooked the dishes and brought them to the table, ready to eat.
Zhang Dongliang remembered an important question he wanted to ask, and quickly asked Director Wang.
"Auntie Wang, I heard that the country has a policy to convert public housing into private housing. Is there any news now?"
Deputy Director Wang glanced at Zhang Dongliang with a half-smile.
"You are well-informed. This policy was discussed before the New Year, and the document just arrived at the subdistrict office today, and you found out about it."
"Hey, I live in such a big house by myself. I'm afraid the policy will change, so I want to buy this house myself."
"The country is facing some financial difficulties now, and we also want to use this method to recover some funds.
Most people don't agree with this matter. Now the task has been put on the street office, and the street office is also having a headache over this issue.
Do you think it is necessary to spend so much money to buy this house? "
"It is necessary. It is absolutely necessary."
Deputy Director Wang did not understand Zhang Dongliang's obsession with the house. Even if he lived here for only one day, he wanted to make this nest truly his own.
"Okay, the subdistrict office will use your hospital as a pilot.
I will go to your courtyard to give a lecture during dinner tomorrow night. The day after tomorrow you can go to the street office and ask me to handle this matter.
You are one of the first batch, which means you support my work. You will be able to get the property certificate soon, and then your property relationship will be transferred to the Housing Authority, and will no longer be under the jurisdiction of the Street Office. "
After get off work the next afternoon, the three old men went door to door in the courtyard to give emergency notices and convene a meeting of the entire courtyard.
The "public-to-private" housing conversion is a task that Deputy Director Wang is in charge of, so Deputy Director Wang personally led the street office staff to the courtyard to conduct lectures.
As expected, the reaction of the people in the courtyard was lukewarm. No one thought they would be so stupid as to spend so much money to buy a public housing unit.
The monthly rent for public housing is only 5 cents to 2 yuan. Isn’t it nice to live like this?
Deputy Director Wang had already anticipated that there would be great resistance to the implementation of this matter, but he did not expect it to be so great that there was not even anyone to ask about it.
Deputy Director Wang and Zhang Dongliang looked at each other without saying anything. Deputy Director Wang asked everyone to think about it, and then led the street office staff away.
Early the next morning, Zhang Dongliang went to the street office and met Deputy Director Wang.
Deputy Director Wang arranged for the person in charge of housing to go to Zhang Dongliang's home for on-site measurements.
Zhang Dongliang also drew in the corridor in front of the door and a small open space on the south side of the house near the screen wall.
After calculation, the total price of Zhang Dongliang’s three houses and their ancillary areas is 1600 yuan.
While the staff was preparing to submit the materials to the Housing Authority, Zhang Dongliang went out and withdrew all the money from his passbooks and handed 1600 yuan to the subdistrict office.
Deputy Director Wang called the Housing Authority again.
In line with the principle of setting an example and handling special matters quickly, Zhang Dongliang got the property certificate in the afternoon. Zhang Dongliang's home in this world was officially settled.
Just like that, before people in the hospital could react, Zhang Dongliang had quietly turned the public housing into a private house, thus satisfying the little thoughts of some people.
The weather is still relatively cold now. When it warms up in a few days, we can start the decoration work.
I will go to the street office to see Deputy Director Wang next week to inquire about the renovation and also ask about the water supply and toilet issues.
At that time, you can install a rustic heater in the room. The rustic heater~~the rustic heater~~~is broken!
Zhang Dongliang suddenly remembered that the city had not yet implemented central heating. Most people lived in bungalows and used coal-burning stoves.
If radiators can still be obtained, then there are no homemade heating stoves for home use, which is a difficult problem.
Although there are several sets of such earthen heating stoves in Zhang Dongliang's small world, but in the current situation, how to explain the source is a problem.
It is certain that once people see this stove can burn earth to heat, it will immediately become popular.
After thinking for a long time, I decided that since I have come to this world, I should make some contribution to this world.
So, I asked Xiaodie for help and found three sets of drawings: one for a homemade heating stove, one for casting a radiator, and one for processing a radiator with steel.
Zhang Dongliang's father was the head of the technical department, and they had all the drawing tools at home. Zhang Dongliang re-drew the blueprint by hand overnight.
But Zhang Dongliang was so exhausted that it was already midnight when he finished the painting.
Before Zhang Dongliang decided to renovate the house, he had to solve the heating problem first.
When I go to work at the factory next Monday, I will ask them if they can process and manufacture such a furnace.
The next day was Sunday. He Yushui did not come to eat, but came over and sat for a while.
Today, Sha Zhu remembered that He Yushui lived in the school dormitory and came back for the first weekend. He fulfilled his duty as an older brother at home.
Early Monday morning, Zhang Dongliang took the drawings, pushed out his bicycle, and followed the people going to work out.
Today is my first time attending Corey’s work meeting. As a newcomer, I have to arrive a little early. It’s a matter of attitude.
Section Chief Xu Jianmin first introduced the new comrade, Comrade Zhang Dongliang, to all staff in the section.
Then, Section Chief Xu summarized the work of the previous week.
Section Chief Xu asked all staff in the section to do their best to purchase as many unplanned materials as possible for the factory to ensure that the welfare benefits of all workers in the factory do not decrease, which is an important guarantee for the workers' enthusiasm for production.
After the meeting, Zhang Dongliang offered a cigarette to all the old comrades in the department one by one to get to know them.
Even the only female comrade in the department was given three pieces of White Rabbit milk candy by Zhang Dongliang.
There were so many people that Zhang Dongliang couldn't remember most of their names, but he remembered a female comrade named Li Hongxia.
Zhang Dongliang believed that this was entirely due to the fact that he drew too late last night, which caused his memory to decline.
After thinking about it, Zhang Dongliang felt that he still had to say hello to Section Chief Xu.
It always felt inappropriate to go around Section Chief Xu and ask people from other departments to help him build a stove and radiator.
After entering Section Chief Xu's office, Zhang Dongliang first asked about the dinner he was going to host tonight.
Section Chief Xu said that this was inappropriate, as it was not appropriate to treat everyone as soon as they got to work. He should wait until Zhang Dongliang received his first pay.
Then Zhang Dongliang asked Section Chief Xu who he should ask for help in building the heating furnace.
Although Section Chief Xu was not on the production line, he was very sensitive and realized that this might be a good thing.