‘Rotten tail’ is slang for a project falling short in its final phase. A mortgage boycott movement in spring and summer 2022, potentially ruinous for the housing sector, was triggered by ‘unfinished’ residential apartments. In the cartoon, the homebuyer stretches to take possession of his unit, located in a toppling ‘rotten tail housing’ project. The developer, meanwhile, slinks out of the back of the building with a bag of ‘pre-sales funds’ which he is intent on ‘embezzling’.