The Elderly Housing Policy of Taiwan: The Case of Chang Gung Elderly Housing Project
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
Wu, Chwun-Jing
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
Abstract
In consideration of the senior citizens’ welfare measures under aging trend, Taiwan government has the industry of non-governmental investment in senior citizens’ housing development fallen under the range of significant public construction as provided in the Act on Encouragement and Promote Nongovernmental Participation in Public Construction, along with the incentives to promote non-governmental participation in public construction.
Chang Gung Elderly Housing Project is the first elderly housing project established after the government’s promoting effort was brought forward. The Chang Gung Project is the biggest one in the world, with 4,000 households that can dwell up to 6,000 senior citizens. And breaking the upper limit of the magnitude of the project costs Chang Gung more than ten years to struggle with the government. Yet, six months after the opening of the first section of the project with 706 household, only eighty-odd people moved in. .
And the government also faces the same kind predicament, getting only one company signed up building contract with a local government in a year and a half. So, the government is planning to change the rules, allowing contractors to chose to sell the elderly housing instead only for renting.
Is elderly care really a good business?
Up to 85% families own their own house in Taiwan, that leaves not much space for the institutes to expand. And those poorer people who don’t have their own house probably wouldn’t be able to pay for the elderly housing.
The incentives to promote non-governmental participation in elderly housing construction makes the social welfare resources attributed in a very unfair way., taking care of the high end of the society, along with its traditional duty for the low end, and drop the middle.
The middle class dwelling in their own house need more community-care that the government devoted very little resources.
The government is with responsibility to make careful control of the elderly housing investment to become a bubble, and also to protect the dwellers in the elderly housing that go out of business.
Keywords: elderly housing, elderly care, housing policy, promote nongovernmental participation
Subjects
老人住宅
老人安養
住宅政策
促參
elderly housing
elderly care
housing policy
promote nongovernmental participation
Type
thesis
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