Department of Urban Development, Taipei City Government

Today The Research, Development and Evaluation Commission, Taipei City Government has revealed the result of phone survey from May 30th to June 1st 2016 with target group being citizens registered in Taipei City. The topic was on various government construction projects including public housing which has received high attention from the public recently. (1056 effective samples, margin of error of ± 0.0302 at 95% confidence level.) According to the survey result, 74.3% of Taipei citizens approve the government’s “Rent only, not for sell” policy for public housing. This indicates that the direction of the Taipei City Government’s policy is correct and also matches with the public’s opinion. 10% of the group (113 people) did not support public housing. The reasons were broken down to: 1. Just not support (26%). 2. Thinks the complicated public housing tenants could affect the area’s living quality (20.5%). 3. Inappropriate choice of the location (14.4%). 4. Lack of pre-communication (12.8%). 5. Others (15.8%). Moreover, only 8.4% of the public think it would affect the surrounding traffic.
For the majority of public who support the public housing policy, The Department of Urban Development will continue aiming for the goal of completing 20,000 units in 4 years. For other publics with opinions including living quality effects, location choices, and lack of pre-communication, the Department of Urban Development will boost their trust by introducing them successfully completed public housing like the Dalongdong Public Housing and Xinglong Public Housing as demonstration. The Department of Urban Development will also improve the communication with the surrounding publics to lower their concern and doubt, and to reach the expectation of the public.
The result of the survey can be found on website of “The Research, Development and Evaluation Commission, Taipei City Government”: http://rdec.gov.taipei(Chinese)