Abstract
The inadequacies of Taiwan’s land tax system and, since the mid-1980s, pro-market housing policies have led to the commoditization of housing in Taiwan (Chen, 2011), resulting in a unique combination of high homeownership rates, high vacancy rates and high housing prices, making it difficult for the housing system to react to social change or to fulfil social needs.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Central Bank of Taiwan (2011) Interest rates, new housing loans in five leading banks, Taiwan: Central Bank of Republic of China, http://www.cbc.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=1079&CtNode=528&mp=1 (accessed 1 November 2012.
Chang, C.-O. (1995) Taiwan diqu zhuzhai jiage zhishu zhi janjiu [Research on housing price indexes in Taiwan area], Taiwan: Council for Economic Planning and Development.
Chang, C.-O., Chen, M.-C. and Yang, C.-Y. (2010) Taibai shi fangjia paomo hua zhi zai yen [Re-examine the housing bubble in Taipei], Taipei: Institute for Physical Planning and Information, http://www.realestate.com.tw/duckhouse/bubble%20press%20conference/bubble%20news.pdf (accessed 1 November 2012).
Chang, J.-F. (2011) Laodong shehuei xue [Labour sociology], Taiwan: Chengchi University Press.
Chen, Y.-L. (2011) New prospects for social rental housing in Taiwan: The role of housing affordability crises and the housing movement, International Journal of Housing Policy, 11(3), 325–38.
Chen, Y.-L. and W. Li, W. (2011) Neo-liberalism, the developmental state and housing policy in Taiwan, in: B.-G. Park, A. Saito and R. Hill (eds) Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia: Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell), pp. 196–224.
China Times (2010a) Fongjia yi zai biaosheng yaoguai cuowu zhengce caocuo [Housing prices keep rising due to false policies], 7 March 2010, http://hk.huaxia.com/thpl/mtlj/2010/03/1782892.html (accessed 1 November 2012).
China Times (2010b) Taiwan 18zen Jijin baiwon fuhao paihangbang shejia shangzheng kao fangdichan [Taiwanese rich people are among Forbes billionaires due to the boom in real estate market], 12 March 2010, http://www.chinanews.com/tw/tw-jjwh/news/2010/03–12/2165955.shtml (accessed 1 November 2012).
China Times (2011) Pingyi fongjia? Xuezhe: kemai duan won jia de [Lower housing prices? Scholars critique that the social housing can be resold and is not real social housing], 9 July 2011, http://news.chinatimes.com/focus/11050105/112011070900116.html (accessed 9 July 2010).
Chu, W.-W. and Hung, C.-Y. (2002) Ziyouhua yu qiye jituanhua de qushi [Business groups in Taiwan’s post-liberalization economy], Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, 47, 33–83.
cnYES.com (2012) Shehui zhuzhai chulong guo wu zhe fuxi la [The production of social housing will benefit the home buyers], 10 January 2012, http://house.cnyes.com/News/tw_housenews/20120110153159422028910/Content.htm (accessed 10 January 2012).
Construction and Planning Agency (CPA) (2006) Zhonghua mingquo jiushi wu nian neizheng bu yingjian shu jikan xiaji hao [The Journal of the Ministry of the Interior, Summer 2006], Taiwan: Ministry of the Interior.
Construction and Planning Agency (CPA) (2007) The statistical yearbook of construction and planning agency, Taiwan: Ministry of the Interior, http://w3.cpami.gov.tw/statisty/95/95_htm/index.htm (accessed 1 November 2012).
Department of Household Registration, Ministry of Interior (2012) Zenkou ziliao ku [Demographic database], Taiwan: Ministry of the Interior), http://www.ris.gov.tw/zh_TW/37 (accessed 1 November 2012).
Department of Statistics, Ministry of Interior (2008) Dishou ruhu shenghuo zhuang-kuang xingbie fexi [Gender analysis of low-income household survey], Taiwan: Ministry of the Interior, http://sowf.moi.gov.tw/stat/sex/genderstat9802.doc (accessed 1 November 2012).
Department of Statistics, Ministry of Interior (2011) 98 nian laozen diaocha jiekou [2009 survey on the elderly], Taiwan: Ministry of the Interior, http://www.moi.gov.tw/stat/news_content.aspx?sn=5060 (accessed 1 November 2012).
Directorate-General Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) (1980, 1990, 2000, 2010) Population and Housing Census, Taiwan: Executive Yuan.
Directorate-General Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) (2007). The General Report on Gender 2007, Taiwan: Executive Yuan.
Directorate-General Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) (2011a) National statistics, Republic of China, Taiwan: Executive Yuan, http://eng.stat.gov.tw/pub-lic/data/dgbas03/bs2/yearbook eng/Y093.pdf; http://eng.stat.gov.tw/public/data/dgbas03/bs2/yearbook eng/y022.pdf (accessed June 2011).
Directorate-General Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) (2011b) Brief Report on 2010 Census Survey, Taiwan: Executive Yuan, http://www.dgbas.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=30077&ctNode=3272 (accessed 1 November 2012).
Directorate-General Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) (2011c) Images of Women, 2011, Taiwan: Executive Yuan, http://eng.stat.gov.tw/public/data/dgbas03/bs2/gender/2011ImagesOfWomen.pdf (accessed 1 November 2012).
Directorate-General Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) (2012) Important indicators based on manpower survey results, by year, Taiwan: Executive Yuan, http://www.dgbas.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=28980&ctNode=3247 (accessed 1 November 2012).
Fu, L.-Y. (2010) Congxing beikuang dian kan Taiwan de kuojia fuli tizhi [The model of the state welfare: Analysis from a gender perspective], Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, 80, 207–36.
Hu, Y.-H. (1995) Santai tungtang [Three-generation families: Myth and trap], Taiwan: Chu Liu.
Housing Department of Taipei City Government (1987) Gouzhai shinian: Taibei shi [Housing in Taipei: 1976–1985], Taipei: Taipei City Government.
Hsiao, H.-H. M. and Liu, H.-J. (1993) Taiwan de tudi zhuzhai wenti yu wuzhu wuzhe yundong de xianzhi [Land-housing problems and the limits of the non-homeowners movement in Taiwan], Hong Kong Journal of Social Science, 2, 1–38.
Hsu, J.-Y. (2011) State transformation and regional development in Taiwan: From developmentalist strategy to populist subsidy, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 35(3), 600–19.
Institute for Physical Planning and Information (IPPI) (2004–2011) Housing Demand Survey, Taipei, Taiwan: Ministry of Interior, http://www.ippi.org.tw/ (accessed 1 November 2012).
Li, J.-H. (2010) Taiwan xingping Jieji de xingcheng yu yinying dueiche [The formation of new poor class and the solutions], Xing shehuei [New society for Taiwan], 10, 16–20, available at http://www.taiwansig.tw/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2730&Itemid=123 (accessed 1 November 2012).
Li, W. D. H. (1998) Housing in Taiwan: Agency and structure?, Singapore: Ashgate.
Liberty Times (2011) Pingfu chaju biao 75 bei zuizhao 5 per cent Jiating nian shoude 5.1 won [The income disparity increases to 75 Times. The annual income of the lowest 5 per cent household is only NT$51,000], 12 April 2012, http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2011/new/apr/12/today-e1.htm (accessed 1 November 2012).
Liberty Times (2012) Bujin pingfu chaju liwei pi nianbei chaju ye e hua [The legislators criticize that not only the gap between the rich and poor but also the north and south have increased], 28 March 2012, http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2012/new/mar/28/today-fo3.htm (accessed 1 November 2012).
Lin, J.-H., Hung, J.-S., Li, J.-H., Wang, J.-C. and Chang, F.-Y. (2011) Beng Shi Dai [The Falling Generation: The Crises of Big Corporation, Poverty, and Low Fertility Rate], Taiwan: Taiwan Labour Front.
Mi, F.-K. (1988) Taiwan de gong gong zhuzhai zhengce [Public housing Policy in Taiwan], Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, 1(2/3), 97–147.
NOWnews (2012) Li hong yuan zhuzhai zhengce lantu bianxiang jieji qishi [The new housing policy implies status discrimination], 25 February 2012, http://www.nownews.com/2012/02/25/91–2789139.htm#ixzz1ooWyAY8z (accessed 1 November 2012).
Peng, I. and Wong, J. (2010) East Asia, in: F. G. Castles, S. Leibfried, J. Lewis and C. Pierson (eds) The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, pp. 656–70, Oxford: Oxford University Press, avilable at http://japanfocus.org/data/OHWS_Kap45.pdf (accessed 1 November 2012).
Ramesh, M. (2003) Globalization and social security expansion in East Asia, in: L. Weiss (ed.) States in the Global Economy: Bring Domestic Institutions Back, pp. 83–100, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Social Housing Advocacy Consortium (SHAC) (2010) Taiwan shehui zhuzhai shuotie [The arguments for ‘social rented housing’ in Taiwan], 4 October 2010, http://socialhousingtw.blogspot.com/2010/10/blog-post_04.html (accessed 1 November 2012).
Social Housing Advocacy Consortium (SHAC) (2011a) Zhummeng yihan juzhu bu chengyi zai taibei shi kongyin chuzu zhuzhai changyan [SHAC felt sorry about the social injustice in Taipei’s public rental housing], 7 November 2011, http://socialhousingtw.blogspot.com/2011/11/blog-post.html (accessed 1 November 2012).
Social Housing Advocacy Consortium (SHAC) (2011b) Zi uo kanjue liang hou de juzhu zhengyi [The ‘housing justice’ only makes the policy makers feel good], 13 December 2011, http://socialhousingtw.blogspot.com/2011/12/blog-post_13. html (accessed 1 November 2012).
Taipei Times (2011) Cabinet passes proposed bill on social housing, 23 September 2011, http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/09/23/2003513987 (accessed 1 November 2012).
Tseng, S.-C. (1994) Zhanhou Taibei de dushi guocheng yu dushi yishi xing gou zhi yanjou [The study of urban process and urban consciousness in postwar Taipei]. Doctoral dissertation, Taiwan: Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University.
United News (2012) Dansheng laoren bao shou xishi [Single elderly were discriminated on renting houses], 29 February 2012, http://money.udn.com/house/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=258431 (accessed 1 November 2012).
Wong, J. (2004) Healthy democracies: Welfare politics in Taiwan and South Korea, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Wu, J.-M. (2010) Disan Zhungkuo Xiangxiang [The third imagination on China], in: J.-M. Wu, Y. Fan and E.-D. Ku (eds) Zhishu Bingfeng niandai [The Age of Colourful Order: 1990–2010], pp. 353–83, Taipei: Left Bank.
Wu, S.-T. and Wu, S.-H. (2004) Goumai nengli touji yu da taibei diqu zhi fongwu jiage [Affordability, speculation and housing prices in Taipei], Journal of Housing Studies, 13(2), 1–22.
Xie, W.-Y. (2010) Haizi sheilai zhaoku [Who is going to take care of the kids? The analysis of Taiwan’s childcare policy], Taiwan: Child Welfare League Foundation, http://www.children.org.tw/upload/File/researcher/3vision2-1-1.pdf (accessed 1 November 2012).
Xiong, I.-X. (2012) Budang fangnu wuke quanou yeyou choutian [Not being a housing slave, the shell-less snail can also enjoy a spring time], Tianxia Magazine, 493, http://m.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=5031446&idSubChannel=38 (accessed 1 November 2012).
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2014 Yi-Ling Chen and Herng-Dar Bih
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Chen, YL., Bih, HD. (2014). The Pro-market Housing System and Demographic Change in Taiwan. In: Doling, J., Ronald, R. (eds) Housing East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137314529_10
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137314529_10
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-34753-7
Online ISBN: 978-1-137-31452-9
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences CollectionSocial Sciences (R0)