Title：Governed by the housing market: The obstacles of homeowner society in Taiwan from an East Asian comparative perspective
Time：15:30-17:00, Tue. June 23, 2020
Location：Room 108, College of Social Sciences, NTU
Speaker：Yi-Ling Chen（Associate Professor, School of Politics, Public Affairs & International Studies, University of Wyoming）
Moderator：Liling Huang （Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, NTU)
Abstract：
This talk uses an East Asian comparative perspective to analyze the features of the Taiwan housing system. It explains how homeowner society in Taiwan was formed under the lassie-fair housing system without protection on housing rights. Homeownership has been the survival strategy of the individual family. However, homeownership increasingly becomes a conservative power that is against any progressive change. The consequences are extremely expensive housing with very low quality, the impediments for urban regeneration according to new needs, and the barriers of producing a new economy. A large amount of capital on the real estate market presses the government to sustain the housing prices. Housing hence becomes a good investment tool and intensifies social inequality.
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