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The Pro-market Housing System and Demographic Change in Taiwan

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The inadequacies of Taiwan’s land tax system and, since the mid-1980s, pro-market housing policies have led to the commoditization of housing in Taiwan (Chen, 2011), resulting in a unique combination of high homeownership rates, high vacancy rates and high housing prices, making it difficult for the housing system to react to social change or to fulfil social needs.

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  1. School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham, UK

    John Doling

  2. Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Richard Ronald

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Chen, YL., Bih, HD. (2014). The Pro-market Housing System and Demographic Change in Taiwan. In: Doling, J., Ronald, R. (eds) Housing East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137314529_10

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