In an Executive Yuan online poll to ascertain the nation’s top 10 grievances that concluded yesterday, the high cost of housing in major cities topped the list.
A total of 4,342 people said the high cost of housing in cities should be included as one of the top 10 public grievances, while only 274 people thought otherwise.
The Cabinet’s Research Development and Evaluation Commission launched the survey last Wednesday after a request by Premier Wu Den-yih (吳敦義).
Cabinet Spokesman Su Jun-pin (蘇俊賓) said the premier wants to push policies that eliminate grievances to improve the livelihood of ordinary people.
Rampant Internet and telephone fraud came second in the poll, with 2,629 people complaining about the phenomenon.
Unemployment came third, with 1,848 complaining about it, while only 98 people disagreed.
DRUGS
A total of 1,288 people said drug addiction should be on the top 10 list of grievances, while 1,052 people complained that the government’s enforcement of traffic rules was too strict.
The result of the online poll was similar to a phone survey conducted by the commission on 1,092 people last Monday and Tuesday.
However, in the phone interview, 75 percent of the respondents complained about the government’s failure to safeguard food sanitation, while 68.3 percent said there were too many stray dogs and too much dog feces on the street.
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