The Executive Yuan on Thursday approved a bill that would allow religious groups to change the registrations of their real-estate assets.
Properties owned by religious groups can be regarded as public goods, and the bill would prevent individuals from appropriating them for their own benefits, Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) told a weekly Cabinet meeting.
Data from the Ministry of the Interior showed that about 750 hectares of land belonging to 7,500 temples nationwide are registered under the name of natural persons.
That is due to religious groups not having completed their temple registration at the time they acquired land, temples being unable to
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Hsinchu tech firms still have enough water, officials say
By Jonathan Chin / Staff writer, with CNA
Government officials yesterday said that the technology sector in Hsinchu County has enough water for now, before touting water supply diversification as the solution to the county’s long-term needs.
Hsinchu County Deputy Commissioner Chen Chien-hsien (陳見賢) and Deputy Minister of the Interior Hua Ching-chun (花敬群) made the remarks after inspecting the Jhubei (竹北) Water Recycling Center in Hsinchu.
Chen said that the Jhubei center and the county’s other water reclamation center in Zhudong Township (竹東) are working well after the county government ordered them to increase the efficiency of their operations.
Cooperation needed to stop house hoarding
By Wei Shih-chang 魏世昌
Statistics compiled by the Fiscal Information Agency showed that from 2013 to 2019, the number of people who together with their spouse and minor children own four or more residential properties rose by 47,000 from 268,000 to 315,000.
The number of properties owned by multiple homeowners, who are subject to a local house-hoarding tax according to Ministry of Finance criteria, rose by 240,000, from 1.4 million to 1.64 million.
The numbers of multiple homeowners and their properties both increased by about 18 percent.
Furthermore, one-quarter of the 1.06 million new homes sold during that time were acquired by multiple homeowners. This means that less than 4 percent of the population owns 14 percent of all residential properties, which shows that house hoarding is an increasingly serious problem.
Exhibition in Taipei highlights housing problems
Staff writer, with CNA
The advocacy group Housing Movement 2.0 on Wednesday launched a month-long exhibition at a rented space in Taipei to satirize the nation’s high housing prices.
In a departure from its past outdoor protests, the organization partnered with National Taiwan University of Science and Technology design professor Lee Ken-tsai (李根在) to rent a space in Daan District (大安) to create the “Celestial Dragons House” (天龍房屋).
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chiang Yung-chang (江永昌), New Power Party (NPP) Legislator Chiu Hsien-chih (邱顯智) and Taiwan People’s Party Legislator Tsai Pi-ru (蔡壁如) attended the opening ceremony, where offerings were displayed and guests held incense sticks to resemble a traditional ceremony sometimes held by real-estate agencies when a new office opens.
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