The developer and the evictees had a dispute over the compensation amount.
Tips
grammar
被 + verb + 人 is a productive pattern for 'person who is [verbed]': 被告人 (defendant), 被害人 (victim), 被拆迁人 (person being relocated due to demolition). Here 被 marks the passive — the person is on the receiving end of 拆迁.
culture
Forced demolitions and inadequate compensation have been a major source of social conflict in China's urbanization, making 被拆迁人 a politically sensitive term in news and legal writing.
