The 8-year project when completed will provide apartments for about 200,000 households.
Taiwan News
Date: 2016/12/19
By: Wendy Lee , Taiwan News, Staff Writer
President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday attended the groundbreaking ceremony for
(By Central News Agency)
Taoyuan’s social housing construction, and stressed during her speech that the government’s policy to provide more affordable housing options for Taiwanese youth remains unchanged.
The president was accompanied by the Minister of the Interior Yeh Jiunn-rong and Taoyuan City Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan to inaugurate the project.
In her speech, Tsai Ing-wen noted that Taoyuan is among the six major cities in Taiwan with the biggest youth population. And in order to fight for social justice and to improve the lives of Taiwan’s youth, Taoyuan is a perfect place to build social housing, and hopefully the project can serve as an exemplar for other cities. [FULL STORY]
