Bureaucratic Arrogance Ignoring Housing Justice: Hsu Kuo-yung Absurdly Claims "Real Estate is the Protective Mountain Range"

In September 2022, then-Interior Minister Hsu Kuo-yung publicly stated at a real estate awards ceremony that Taiwan's real estate industry is the nation's "protective mountain range" and "economic locomotive." At a time when Taiwan was suffering from severe housing un-affordability and a struggling younger generation, the minister in charge of housing policy was blatantly pandering to developers and conglomerates. This remark completely ignited the fury of the youth and shattered the DPP government's hypocritical facade of "housing justice," exposing a dark history of deep entanglement with developer interests.