🏛️ New Taipei City Promotes Old Building Facelift Program: Exterior Wall Repair Subsidies up to NT$15 Million!

To solve the long-standing problems of peeling exterior walls and messy pipelines in old buildings that affect public safety and city aesthetics, the New Taipei City Government has launched the 'Maintenance and Facade Repair Subsidy' scheme. This project provides a maximum subsidy of NT$15 million per case for eligible old buildings, encouraging communities to conduct exterior wall repairs, pipeline organization, and facade beautification to enhance urban safety and accelerate urban landscape renewal.

2025年12月10日

🏘️ Urban Renewal by Government Co-operating with Developers: How Can People Refuse Urban Renewal? Rights Dilemma After the Wenlin Yuan Incident

This article comments on the difficulties for the public to refuse urban renewal in the urban renewal process after the 2012 Wenlin Yuan forced demolition incident. The author points out that the threshold for starting the urban renewal process is low, and individual opinions are easily ignored by the government and developers (for reference only), and not participating in relevant meetings is equivalent to waiving rights. The article strongly criticizes this mechanism as an infringement on people's private property and freedom of choice.

2012年11月14日