HOUSING JUSTICE: The proposal would limit transfers of presales and new housing contracts and impose hefty fines on unfair property promosBy Hsieh Chun-lin and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The government should offer consultations and incentives for tenants in unsafe apartment buildings to set up management committees, rather than making it mandatory, housing rights advocates said on Thursday.
The Executive Yuan on Feb. 24 approved proposed amendments to the Condominium Administration Act (公寓大廈管理條例) that would require the tenants of more than 10,000 buildings to establish management committees by a deadline.
The changes were prompted by a fire at a 13-story building in Kaohsiung in October last year that killed 46 people.
The amendments would require tenants of condominiums built before June 29, 1995, that have been deemed a safety hazard to set