Beijing ditches stalled rural homestead mortgage pilots
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The central government has quietly abandoned pilots allowing rural folks to mortgage their homesteads.
On Monday, Caixin flagged the development in the context of the legal complexity and political sensitivity of rural homestead rights reform.
The crux of the issue: Under the Civil Code, only rural...