That's by design. The catastrophe was covered up by government officials for well over a decade, until the fires started affecting too many residents for it to be plausibly denied any longer. By then the company responsible had long been dissolved leaving residents with no means of recourse.

At which point the government started forcing people to leave, offering them pennies on the dollar to their home's actual value (offering just $50,000 for a property valued at over $400,000 for example)