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weneedhome/summaryofloansuspension

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TLDR

Crowdsourced database of Chinese homebuyer loan suspension notices from stalled real estate projects, organized by province with original documents and interactive mapping.

Mindmap

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    What it does
      Aggregates suspension notices
      Maps stalled projects
      Tracks by province
    Data format
      Notice documents
      Structured lists
      Geographic coordinates
    Use cases
      Research housing crisis
      Track project status
      Find affected properties
    Features
      Interactive map
      Flat and tree data
      Automated verification

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Research the 2022 Chinese housing crisis and mortgage payment boycotts by province.

USE CASE 2

Find stalled residential projects near a specific city using the interactive map.

USE CASE 3

Analyze structured data on affected properties to understand geographic distribution of construction delays.

Tech stack

HTMLJSONGeoJSONCI/CD

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
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In plain English

This repository collects publicly posted notices from homeowners across China who have announced they are suspending mortgage payments on unfinished apartment buildings, properties they bought but the developer never completed. The README describes it as a non-professional, approximate aggregation drawn from public sources, intended only as a statistical summary and disclaiming political commentary. It notes the original organisers have been banned and that some external mirrors have been deleted or had access revoked. The data is organised by province and city, listing hundreds of named properties under provinces such as Anhui, Beijing, Chongqing, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, and Henan. Each entry typically links to a scanned image of the actual suspension notice residents have signed. The README reports a running total of more than 351 properties at the snapshot shown. The repo also ships structured data files, a flat JSON, a tree-shaped JSON, and a cities file with latitude/longitude for visualisation, plus a generated country map in light and dark colour schemes, and a separate online map hosted elsewhere. You would visit this repository to see in one place how widespread the unfinished-building mortgage protests are in China and which specific developments are involved. It is also useful as a dataset for journalists, researchers, or developers building visualisations. The project is mostly HTML and Markdown documentation, with a backend in Node.js, a separate frontend folder, a shell-based validation script, and continuous integration that automatically verifies the statistical counts. The full README is longer than what was provided.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Show me how to query this loan suspension database to find all stalled projects in a specific Chinese province.
Prompt 2
How can I use the GeoJSON data from this repo to build my own map of suspended real estate projects?
Prompt 3
Extract and analyze the structured property data from this repository to identify patterns in which cities have the most stalled developments.
Prompt 4
Help me understand the data format and how to parse the province/city/district hierarchy in this crowdsourced notice collection.
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