The government should offer consultations and incentives for tenants in unsafe apartment buildings to set up management committees, rather than making it mandatory, housing rights advocates said on Thursday.
The Executive Yuan on Feb. 24 approved proposed amendments to the Condominium Administration Act (公寓大廈管理條例) that would require the tenants of more than 10,000 buildings to establish management committees by a deadline.
The changes were prompted by a fire at a 13-story building in Kaohsiung in October last year that killed 46 people.
The amendments would require tenants of condominiums built before June 29, 1995, that have been deemed a safety hazard to set
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.