Comparison of Social Housing Development Models in Surabaya City, Indonesia and Taipei City, Taiwan

• Main Authors: Ellen Yih Jing Huang, 黃怡璟
• Other Authors: Kung-Jen Tu
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/fk8f46

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 建築系 === 108 === Housing affordability has been an ongoing issue in both Taiwan and Indonesia. Although the background of the issue may be different, both countries choose to create ambitious social housing policies as part of the solution to the housing problems. Zooming to Taipei City in Taiwan and Surabaya City in Surabaya, both cities have similar population scale and density, and both cities, compared to the more established social housing systems in Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, and the Netherlands, are still finding their own footing in terms of creating their own social housing policies, development model, design, and management system, and the number of research on social housing in Surabaya and Taipei is low. Based on these reasons, this thesis had the objectives of finding data on the policy, development process, design features, and property management model of social housings in Surabaya and Taipei, and later compare them and discuss the major differences. Through field observations, redrawing of layouts using CAD software, interviews, and document collection, data about policy, development process, design features, and property management model of social housings in both cities are collected. By comparison, there are some differences found in these four aspects between social housings in Surabaya and Taipei. Policy-wise, Indonesia focuses on building new development, while Taiwan uses both new development and vacant existing housings, due to different background in both countries’ housing problems. Development process-wise, Taipei has improved previous method of social housing provision to be much more efficient in an effort to speed up development process, and also allow the development of residential buildings on government’s lands, so that a percentage of units can be let out as social housings. The rent to income ratio differs a lot with Surabaya’s being 0.6-2.8% and Taipei’s being 5.88-20.26%. Design features-wise, Surabaya’s social housings are low-rise to minimize costs, and Taipei’s social housings are high-rise, as land availability is limited. Average private living space per person also differs, with around 6m2 per person for Surabaya, and 25.22m2 per person for Taipei. Property management model-wise, Surabaya’s social housings are managed by government, with varying residents’ involvement in different social housings, while the management of social housings in Taipei is outsourced to professional property management companies, because the financial aspect has been considered into the rent.