By Chen Wei-han / Staff reporterA coalition of housing rights advocates yesterday rallied in front of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) headquarters to call for hearings on controversial development and expropriation cases nationwide. Following the controversial approval of the railroad project in August last year, the Ministry of the Interior announced a set of regulations as the legal foundation for a hearing, but the government has rejected their requests, Chen Chih-hsiao said. The community was part of a military dependents’ village, which was destroyed during a typhoon in 1963. A UN analysis of Taiwan’s enforcement of the human rights covenants this year showed that housing rights are the most pressing such issue in the nation, National Chengchi University professor Hsu Shih-jung (徐世榮) said. I hope Tsai will honor her promise and revise the law,” Hsu said.

Source: Taipei Times September 17, 2017 15:56 UTC