Tseng Teh-fu, a staff person at the Bureau of Land Management in the Ministry of the Interior, recalls that capital controls, increased assessments, and other measures was proposed, but the only truly harsh medicine prescribed were provisions to tax or forcibly buy empty land if construction was not started within a certain time limit.
內政部地政司技正曾德福回憶，融資管制、調高公告現值等措施都曾被提出來，但真正的猛藥是空地限期建築、徵收空地稅和照價收買。