Community participation is the foundation of a community's healthy environment and sustainable development. Social housing can provide people without their own homes and underprivileged groups with more secure conditions to live and work and thereby realize housing justice and reduce social vulnerability. In terms of community management, residents' engagement in community affairs can dramatically reduce the subsequent burden of environmental maintenance and community management, which encourage residents in the community to actively pass on the habit of maintenance and to collectively create resilient and sustainable communities. However, lease term restrictions in Taiwan's social housing policy stipulates that ordinary tenants can only rent the house for 6 years at a maximum and tenants with special conditions for 12. This study attempts to understand whether lease term restrictions affect residents' willingness to participate in community affairs. In addition, we also try to find out how to motivate residents to participate in community construction under the existence of lease term restrictions. The scope of this study focuses on citizens who qualified to rent social housing in the Greater Taipei area (including Taipei City and New Taipei). We designed a questionnaire for our target audience, tested its reliability and validity and picked random-selected samples to finish the questionnaire. Analyzing from the perspective of Egoism, we find out that the result of this research shows that residents do not commonly avoid participation in community affairs. Although lease term restrictions do have some effects on residents' willingness to participate, they are still willing to participate since issues of safety and environmental quality have a direct impact on their lives. However, the residents' chief consideration is how time spent in participation affects one's time. Also, though substantial returning benefit is not the main consideration when deciding whether to participate, it does effectively boost residents' willingness. Furthermore, community member relations is found to have a positive correlation with their willingness to participate.
Social housing is a welfare strategy geared to meeting the housing needs of working people and the middle class. Apart from resolving the basic housing problem of disadvantaged members of society, social housing also seeks to provide excellent residential quality, and achieve the goal of livable cities via enhancement of the quality of the urban living environment as a whole through a community-based approach. The goal of this paper is to explore social housing community development strategies for Taipei City, and examine how they can create livable social housing communities. The chief focal points include determination of problems currently faced by social housing communities in Taipei and formulation of development strategies based on livability criteria. After employing literature analysis to gain an understanding of problems cited in the literature and connected with current standards, the integration of livable city assessment items are discussed in the context of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The publicly-owned idle space consisting of a former Army Maintenance Plant base in Taipei's Xinyi District that can be reused as a social housing community was chosen as the study case, SWOT analysis of the site's internal and external environmental factors and its current state of development were performed, and finally conclusions have been submitted concerning the development needs of livable residential communities and recommendations for Taipei City addressing social housing community development strategies. It is found that current development strategies tend to neglect communities' basic economic loads, and that an appropriate development strategy be constructed on the basis of Taiwan's current "Eco-Community Evaluation System" is recommended by incorporating basic community economic load factors, which will facilitate the sustainability of community management and maintenance.
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