This run-down area, though a community to its residents, has been seen as a "tumor on the city" by a series of Taipei mayors. But because many of the squatters have been old, infirm, and poor, city councilors have sympathized with them, and the area has never been cleared. The demolition plan, first formalized a decade ago, has thus been delayed all this time.
這塊地從原始的簡陋建築，發展成一大片戶戶相鄰、擁擠不堪、自成格局的平房違建區，也成為歷屆台北市長眼中的「市容大毒瘤」，但又顧念其中貧病老弱住戶過多，市議員也傾向同情，一直未執行拆遷，這麼一拖就是十年。