GHOST ROYALTY:The ‘most pressing’ human rights issue in Taiwan is housing, as only 0.08 percent live in public housing, compared with 5 percent in the rest of East Asia
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 18, 2017
By: Chen Wei-han / Staff reporter
A coalition of housing rights advocates yesterday rallied in front of the Democratic
Housing rights advocates burn spirit money during a news conference outside the Democratic Progressive Party headquarters in Taipei yesterday. The demonstrators were calling for hearings on controversial development and expropriation cases. Photo: Peter Lo, Taipei Times
Progressive Party (DPP) headquarters to call for hearings on controversial development and expropriation cases nationwide.
Dozens of advocates and people affected by land expropriation parodied a religious ceremony and burned paper offerings to President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), Premier William Lai (賴清德), Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu (陳菊), Taichung Mayor Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) and Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan (鄭文燦), who they said were “ghost kings and queens” responsible for inappropriate seizure of properties and the victimization of residents.
They called for administrative hearings to be held for a planned underground railroad line in Tainan, the Taoyuan Aerotropolis project, the relocation of residents in a former military dependents’ village at Daguan (大觀) community in New Taipei City’s Banciao District (板橋) and rezoning in the Wenzaizun (塭仔圳) area in the city’s Sinjhuang District (新莊). [FULL STORY]