The government will offer 4,000 affordable housing units for sale near the Taipei Mass Rapid Transit system’s planned Linkou (林口) station, which is scheduled to open in 2013, with low-income families who do not already own property given preference, Ministry of the Interior officials said.
Construction and Planning Agency Director Yeh Shih-wen (葉世文) said last week that the government would use approximately 226 hectares of reserved land and farmland around the planned MRT station to build the housing.
Prices are planned to be as low as NT$150,000 per ping (3.3m²).
While housing prices in Taipei City and some locations in Taipei County have been skyrocketing over the past few years, a survey report released by the Research, Development and Evaluation Commission in December indicated that high housing prices in the city topped the list of public complaints.
To help low-income families live in their own apartments, the government decided to build affordable housing units with easy access to public transport.
The 4,000 units at Linkou are expected to be completed in 2013, when an extension of the MRT system to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport is scheduled for completion.
Yeh said the travel time from Linkou to the Taipei Main Station stop would be around 30 minutes.
He said more affordable housing units are planned along the line and that the government is also planning to build public housing units on the outskirts of Tamsui (淡水) in Taipei County, where a light rail system is being planned.
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