Elderly people trapped in old houses 2》People in old houses are also old, and the two elderly people in Beijing are the most serious

The proportion of the population aged 65 and above in Taipei City is as high as 24.76%, making it the highest proportion of counties and cities in Taiwan. (Photo by reporter Xu Yiping)

[Reporter Xu Yiping/Report from Taipei] The population of 17 counties and cities in Taiwan is now a super-aged society. According to the latest statistics from the Department of Household Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior, in August, the proportion of the elderly population over 65 years old in Taipei City reached 24.76%, the highest proportion in Taiwan. In the highest counties and cities, real estate industry players pointed out that if combined with the fact that the proportion of old houses over 30 years old in the second quarter was as high as 74.47%, the second highest among the 22 counties and cities, the current living situation in the "capital" Taipei City is already a situation where "the elderly are trapped in old houses".

Among the 22 counties and cities in the country, except for 5 counties and cities including Taoyuan City, Taichung City, Hsinchu City, Hsinchu County and Lianjiang County, the proportion of people over 65 years old does not reach 20%.

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Huang Shuwei, director of Colliers International’s Real Estate Owner Representative Services Department, said that Taipei’s “double-elderly” hit areas should get rid of the policy blind spot of “only looking at the elderly but not the danger”, especially focusing only on development benefits and ignoring key social issues such as public security and health. This is because Taipei’s population aging is not only irreversible, but also faces a cliff-like imbalance in the outmigration of young people, and the policy tools currently being promoted have shown diminishing marginal effects.

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Therefore, Huang Shuwei believes that the top priority is to break away from real estate thinking and integrate cross-regional supporting facilities. The government provides horizontal series, such as housing pension, nursing home trust and insurance integration mechanism, to convert the net value frozen in the old house into real cash flow, and through leasing and management, subletting and home-swap services, create an age-friendly residential safety protection network.

Zeng Jingde, project manager of the Xinyi Housing Real Estate Enterprise Research Office, said that Taipei City has been developing for a long time, and the situation of elderly people living in old residences is also particularly severe. Although the government has promoted the installation of elevators in apartments in recent years in an attempt to improve the inconvenience for the elderly, in fact not every apartment has space for installation and modification, and policies should be able to give more attention and assistance.

He Shichang, CEO of Xin Chuan Real Estate Think Tank, said that housing prices in Bei City are expensive, with the average price per square meter of medieval buildings beginning with 8 prefixes, and the unit price of pre-sale houses often exceeding 1 million yuan per square meter. The young and middle-aged people cannot afford it at all. They mostly use transportation routes to buy houses in places such as Keelung, New Taipei, and Taoyuan. This is one of the factors that indirectly leads to the decline in the proportion of young and middle-aged people in Bei City.

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