The Reality of the Elderly Tenants’ Lives: A Study of a Rental Apartment in Taipei
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Huang, Cian-Huan
Abstract
Living by renting a house instead of buying one may be a way to face the sharply rising house prices in the city. But how are those who renting houses in their whole life? We have very few information about them. Literature on elderly tenants is rare. And most of them are quantitative research, in which we cannot understand who the tenants are, how are their living conditions. Individual elderly tenants’ profile and their daily life is sketchy in the existing literature. If we check into the literature on elderly housing, we will find that in Taiwan most of the researches focus on premises which were built by government or by the financial groups. These researches usually aim on physical living conditions or the post-occupancy evaluation of the residents, try to find improvements to make those elderly housings (which still have vacant units) better and more appealing. Such researches often ignored that these kind of elderly housing all have the same problem: the rent is too high to the retired laborers. To fill such research gap, I studied a rental apartment which is not managed by government nor by any financial groups. I try to portray the residents’ lives and social network in the building as well as around the area. This rental apartment is definitely not an ideal place to live. But to the residents the prime principle is what they can “afford” to pay the rent. I found that this rental apartment and its’ neighborhood have some special quality: comprehensive and flexible. Such special quality permeated there indeed help the government to reduce its burden caused by the deficiency of affordable housing, and minimized the coming social problems.
Subjects
Elderly tenant
Elderly housing
Rental housing
Affordable housing
Social housing
SDGs
Type
thesis
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