Seventy-six percent. That's the number of Wang Fuk Court owners who've now signed off on selling their flats back to the government. You need way less than that to force it through, so this thing is basically done. 156 people died in the fire at the tower in November. The building is coming down, and the families who lived there are about to get a cheque instead of a home.

Here's the part that actually matters for the people in it: nobody's arguing about the price anymore, they're arguing about how fast the cheque clears. RTHK reported this week the government is pressing ahead with the Wang Chi buyout on the same logic, same playbook, different block. When almost everyone says yes to the same number, that's not a negotiation. It reflects families who want to stop living next to where it happened.