When the URA proposed to acquire houses in Nga Tsin Wai Village in the 2000s, Ng Chiu Pang was still reluctant to sell. The village houses in Nga Tsin Wai were very old and dilapidated. While Ng Chiu Pang had spent money on repairing his own three ancestral homes, their condition was still very poor. At that time, the families of his third and fourth uncles were still living in the houses and constantly faced the threat of wind, rain and termite. Ng Chiu Pang simply did not have sufficient money to permanently repair the ancestral houses. Indeed, so bad was their condition, it was only a matter of time before they collapsed. Besides, should the sale of the houses and resettlement go ahead, the families of his third and fourth uncles would have to be resettled quickly. Matters were further complicated by the fact that Ng Chiu Pang’s second uncle owned part of the estate of the ancestral houses and the man’s wife was so old and poor that she wanted to sell the houses as soon as possible so she could use the money raised to improve her quality of life. Ng Chiu Pang was sympathetic to his relatives’ needs and initiated negotiations with the URA.