Feb. 29 (M), 2016 "Learn/teach UNDER the Armed"

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~ Education No-Border Series ~ #6

Pop-quiz for tonight:     "Learn-n-teach under the Armed"
Is teaching/facilitating Natural Sciences safer than that of Social Sciences?

Or put in this way : Is teaching/facilitating Social Sciences (if with "critical thinking" competencies) an endangered business?

Here are some guidelines for faculty's safety posted on the Chronicles of Higher Education:

A PowerPoint Slide Advises Professors to Alter Teaching to Pacify Armed Students
The Faculty Senate president at the University of Houston suggests that his colleagues "drop certain topics" from their curricula after a campus-carry law takes…
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Xena Crystal Huang

The following PowerPoint slide was excerpted from the above article. It reminds me an anecdote that a while ago, brother Ben came to visit me. I invited him to my ITV (Interactive TV) "Sociology" classroom. He sat in the student area, and I was busy at the ITV workstation.

When I was discussing some hot button issues with the far sites' students as usual, my brother showed some uneasiness and continuously made some tiny gestures like warning signs to me.

After class, I asked my brother, "Are you O.K.? Something bothered you?" Brother Ben worried so much and said, " I was nervous and sweating when you talked to students with those 'dangerous topics'..." and suggested me to drop those "race, ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, religion, and stratification issues" with students for fear that some unhappy students might retaliate upon me...

You know, brother Ben's major, obviously, was not Sociology...

Blood is thicker than water :)!

A side bar episode: as fish is the least creature to understand water in a fishbowl, and less likely to choose to leave it, I seldom give my "fish-bowled-water" a 2nd thought, and just do as a sociologist educator supposed to do.

So, well well, in retrospect, brother Ben's prediction did happen in many forms in different contexts over many years of my serving as a social science educator in the US, but not as a visual art adjunct. One of the events was gone too far and I had to pull up all my guts as a minority faculty (in terms of race/ethnicity) to collect sufficient evidence to make a case for a solution to keep myself sane. Another long story to tell. But I should skip now.

Maybe when my Anecdotes are put together in the near future regarding all the twists-n-turn and ups-n-downs adventures in the US as a social science Educator, then, there may be a book available to you :)!

Stay tuned.



Xena Crystal Huang Excerpted from the above article.

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Xena Crystal Huang A Dean resigned due to the newly passed handgun policy that allows students bear arms in the classroom in TEXAS.
http://www.nytimes.com/.../dean-at-university-of-texas...

Dean at University of Texas Resigns in Part Over Handgun Law
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Feb. 28 (S), 2016. The Wounded Knee

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On this Feb, 28, 2016

Hundreds march to Wounded knee to commemorate the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre and celebrated the 41st anniversary of the start of the 71-day occupation led by the American Indian Movement, or AIM. The occupation brought worldwide attention to the struggles of Native
Americans.

Hundreds march to commemorate Wounded Knee occupation
WOUNDED KNEE | To the sounds of prayers, drumbeats and gunfire, Native Americans paid homage Thursday to the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee.
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Xena Crystal Huang I was focusing on Taiwan's 228 massacre, in 1947, thenDavid Frazer's post made me add the above info.
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David Frazer I tried to camp there once on a motorcycle trip, rancher owner wouldn't let me. Not sure if it would have been a very peaceful sleep, something about the place.
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David Frazer I had never heard of 1947 events, quite a few around the world that year. Looking into it.
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Xena Crystal Huang It was a major tragedy of Taiwan that tore this Nation apart. One of my theses was based on this Island-wide movements.

Xena Crystal Huang I have posted this one for 3 times already.




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David Frazer I know, I saw it...

Feb. 28 (Sa),2016 Who is above the Law? Examining the 2-century long Legal and Employment Affirmative Action!

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~ Vernacular Sociology-No-Border Series ~ Who is above the law?

Who are those, truly enjoying Legal Affirmative Action, not to mention Employment Affirmative Action - for 2 centuries?

28 years for ruining 2000 kids' lives! What sort of JUSTICE???

While several "Last Judgments" emerging and hanging around the late Supreme Court Justice Scalia, the following event (surely, many in Wisconsin as well) might make you want to take a look at the "Justice" system regarding who makes laws, how laws are reinforced/interpreted for whose best interests... Taiwan, Alert!!

Corrupt ‘Kids for Cash’ judge ruined more than 2,000 lives
Hillary Transue, 14, created a fake, humorous Myspace page about her school’s vice principal. Justin Bodnar, 12, cursed at another student’s mother. Ed Kenzakoski, 17,…
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Xena Crystal Huang http://www.africanamerica.org/.../pa-judge-sentenced-to...
"...Judge Ciavarella, who sentenced around 3,000 children in a similar manner, was later sentenced himself to 28 years in prison for financial crimes related to his acceptance of $2.2 million as a finder’s fee for the construction of a for-profit facility in which to house these so-called delinquents...."

Pa. Judge Sentenced To 28 Years For Selling Black Teens To Prison
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Xena Crystal Huang The prison-industrial-complex, runs through the hotel-business model in the name of "efficiency and creating jobs": the occupancy is the key profit. The cells need bodies - any kind!
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James Kimbrough Definitely, a level of; " metaphysics " to consider in the operation of government, business, politics, medicine, etc.,..
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Xena Crystal Huang Some smart people invest in Government to build more cells by cutting off educational budget. Education hinders some people's best interests.
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Xena Crystal Huang Though, this might sound an anecdote :

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Xena Crystal Huang The function, latent function and dysfunction/social conflict of Deviance and Criminal Justice system - are our key themes of coming Tuesday Sociology.

Feb 28 (Sn), 2016. ~228~ Recalling one of my theses (published at UW-Madison, 1993)

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Recalling one of my theses (published at UW-Madison, 1993)
was about today - 228, Taiwan, in 1947

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Xena Crystal Huang Repost - Last year of today: For Peace, Justice, and history observers.

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Xena Crystal Huang  In brief of the above post: The Direct casualties and victims quest for justice to be answered, the wronged vindicated, and survivors condoled. The Indirect victims are ingrained with the darkest human tragedy - behind the lime-lighted stage and under the horrific shadows...
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Xena Crystal Huang Tolocaust.

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The major Human Tragedies won't happen without the tango of the global and domestic hegemonic powers' "intentions or intervention". The main protagonists in this Collective, if not Collaborated, horrific "mistake" that could be identified were: Japan, Communist China, and Nationalist China imposed on local Taiwanese socio-economic elites under a chaotic geo-politic-economic transition, later, the US being a key role of the subsequent events
- still going on,,,

Feb. 27 (Sa), 2016. The Dillingham Flaw 以古鑑今 vs. 以今非古 => 莫忘 時過境遷, 今非昔比

The Dillingham Flaw vs. Comparative Relativism - Ambivalence and confusion??

"Dillingham Flaw" was coined by Vincent N. Parrillo. See "Diversity in America: A Socio-historical Analysis." Sociological From 9 (1994): 523-35.

Historical facts: Senator William P. Dillingham chaired a congressional commission on immigration that conducted extensive hearings between 1907 and 1911 on the massive immigration then occurring.

"In issuing its 41-volume report, the commission erred in its interpretation of the data by using simplistic categories and unfair comparison of past and present immigrants by ignoring three important factors: (1) differences of technological evolution n the immigrants' countries of origin, (2) the longer interval during which past immigrants had time to acculturate, and (3) changed structural conditions in the US wrought by industrialization and urbanization."  See Vincent N. Parrillo. 2009. Diversity in America. 3rd ed.

Feb. 27 (Sa), 2016. Individualistic Collectivism : 時勢造英雄創時勢造英雄創時勢

Feb. 27 (Sa), 2016 Back from Taiwan to Wisconsin : a “naturally stratified phenomenon” and the “honored life-chance choice” at an airport

02/06/16 (Sa) A diary written 3 weeks ago.

Arriving at the San Francisco Air Port for a connection to Chicago, as usual, you saw the mundane scenes scattering around the waiting areas. It was not difficult to spot approximate 95 % of Caucasian passengers dotted with small groups of Eastern Indians, Middle Easterners, and some Asians.  I was in the last category of my own neutral "racial profiling".

Then you unconsciously glanced over the airport floor maintenance custodians, cashiers and sell service staff in the varieties of stores, the wheel-chair-aid persons, transportation vehicle drivers, stuff porters,  luggage carries,  restroom service workers of whom, 100% were minority comprised of African-Americans, Hispanic looking people and a very tiny portion of Asians.   The only group mixed with White and Non-White personnel were at airline service stations and around the checking point areas.

I am not a traveling fan. But each time I fly, the subconscious notion of social class and global stratification will naturally pop out when I arrive the airport.  Where has a better opportunity to witness the vivid social stratification than those of “naturally stratified” phenomena happening at the airport?

While trying to kill time via writing something, suddenly, I found a group of 7 or 8 male and female African-Americans walking through my waiting area.  This was quite an unusual scene from my not-very-frequently-traveling experience to see African-Americans flying, even though I know the middle class of African-Americans is growing compared to decades ago - based on my sociological understanding.  Then more and more African-Americans showed up to the waiting area. Altogether 27, with 3 being non-black males (two of them carrying Hispanic appearances- from my racial/ethnic stereotypical judgement) and 5 black females.

Finally, the boarding time approached. Passengers could not wait to get into their grouped waiting lanes. Within minutes, the boarding service staff announced, “... Now we are ready to board flight xxx to Chicago. The US staff and personnel, please board from the first lane.” All 27 members boarded one by one with “things they carried” in a black moving line contrasting with the rest of pretty white passengers waiting at the rest of the grouped lanes.

Yes, they were Military service men and women with “life chances” of their “choice” that was so "honored" by the rest of the passengers, flight service personnel, and, surely, the whole Nation as a whole.

                     (I quickly took a snapshot of part of this group at one waiting corner.)

I got into my seat, so as the rest of passengers who all settled down. Before providing the flight safety information, a female flight steward announced, “It is our great honor to welcome our military service men and women…”, then right away, the rest of passengers clapped their hands. Surely, I – gave them a big hand with enthusiasm, as a retired Captain who served with the similar trade in Taiwan for 7 years…

                         ( A field training session at The Young Lion-n-Lioness Camp, 1984)

Then, some curious friends asked (so as many of my students in the US.), "Why did you 'choose' to join military? It sounds like a Harvard switching to West Point?" Surely, joining military in Taiwan, was anything but for fun, excitements, "free traveling", GI Bill, other high-profile issues, or specific type of "patriotism" as popularly claimed in the US...

Well well, this will be another long story to write about. First of all, the polite and kind of Harvard and West Point analogies might not sound proper. Secondly, it depends on how question is framed, such as "what kind of life chances do you have, are given/imposed, or "created/designed",  based on your race/ethnicity, gender, class...etc circumscribing the decision-making? Wow, what a question to ask!!
Might as well... Let's skip it :)! 

Feb. 26 (F), 2016 “住者有其屋” 只當是個有屋有宅, 大廈連雲者的清涼口號. 到如今, 卻是官官相護, 官商勾結的業障. 5% vs. 95% - How to Earn The Identity of Landownership

My NTU classmate Steve Chen shared with me a rich message about Madam Chiang Kai-shek/Soong Mei-ling (蔣宋美齡) who lived in the US after her husband passed away, died at age of 106 in 2003. Currently her long Island mansion was tagged with $1,108 million dollars on real estate market (The link attached below provides info about this super-high-end with historically unique-value property.)

By the way, 大概有人會問:  " 是國產呢? 還是黨產?? "

http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s__biz=MzAwMTA2MzY5Mg==&mid=400233644&idx=5&sn=df4d27942b14a2539adb3906d57300cd&scene=2&srcid=1105O26PfGnL3rQfBa04c5l7&from=timeline&isappinstalled=0#rd ;
meanwhile my the other classmate James wrote about housing conditions in Taiwan.

These two messages remind of what happened 3 weeks ago when I took a bereavement leave to go back to Taipei to attend my dearest sister's funeral. During the whole week I stayed at my brother Fu's home (where I grew up when I was young with my parents and siblings). Brother Fu is the only sibling among 8, who owns a business and has a financially sound living condition.  He always encourages me to go back to Taipei.

(Attached is a very old picture of our small home lived with extended family members, which my parents purchased in Taipei via my father's selling roasted nuts and fresh fruits. It was remodeled later and brother Fu and his family, now, are residing there).

I chatted with brother Fu casually with a joking tone, "If I put all my pensions and some savings together, maybe I could afford a small place to live in Taipei, so I don't have to bother you guys when I visit Taipei..."  Brother Fu, seemingly took my words seriously and said, "Ar May-ar (my nickname), let me tell you this -  I think all of your hard earned money via all of your working and teaching from the US. -  I have to be honest with you - those savings might not be enough to buy a piece of Brick of a small house in Taipei...  So, don't worry, if you decide to come back, you still can choose to stay with us..."

Though just a short chat, I took it as a daily conversation without any extra feeling to interpret, since so far, I am the only sibling that brother Fu and his family deemed as a "valuable" relative. If it were some of my other siblings who might not be financially successful, then that could be a different story. Definitely, I did not take it as a humiliation, sarcasm, or a typical "anti-intellect" sentiment that once in a while runs through family feuds, because, brother Fu, always expresses his appreciation that I am the only sibling encouraging him during the darkest time of his life.

Nevertheless, it was still a shame - I thought about myself.... Many years ago, with 2 pieces of luggage and a big scholarship won through a 3-day National Competition, I landed on the US. I mailed money home whenever I worked, in particular, the amount of the scholarship which was from the hard-working Taiwanese taxpayers' money - all sent back to Taiwan. So, my dear friends and folks, are you still expecting me becoming a famous professor or a Nobel prize winner some sort like that?  Frankly speaking, NOT in my life time - be candid with you guys, because today, I am still paying a couple of big mortgages through my teaching pay-checks :)!

Recalling the past, and looking at the current progress, obviously, many Asian students sent by their parents to America have enjoyed better learning and living conditions since a couple of decades ago when I started teaching at a couple of Universities and current a Technical College. These students included from Taiwan (the population have been dwindling drastically, though), not to mention from China, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, due to the flourishing economy and rising living standards. Apparently, compared to my early situation as an international student, their patterns of consumption are still strikingly shocking to me. For examples, some of my students from the Far-eastern Asia at a previous University that I taught, they purchased new cars with cash, rented the high-end apartments, shopped at personalized stores, and visited their native countries almost every semester. When I was a student at UW-Madison with tight budgeted scholarship, I lived in the co-op or got the sublease during summers and winters as the best as I could, looking for car-pools via the kind local people who gave you rides to grocery stores, and working part-time at a couple of libraries for buying extra books. The average years that I saved enough money to go back to Taipei was 3.5 years after I had been an educator while pursuing a terminal degree. That's why I always feel awkward when people's kind and casual chatting with "How is your summer/winter break? Did you go back to visit your friends and relatives?"

Even not being student anymore,  a couple of my dear friends from Taiwan invested lots of money on the US real estate and resorts, purchased cars and houses via cash, and are constantly busying in leisure traveling. These are truly temptations to me : why not just quit my teaching job which constantly puts me under tremendous stress as almost the only minority (in terms of racial/ethnic dimension) faculty member among 268 at my current work-setting ???

Thinking of going back to Taiwan, if not staying with my brother's family, then I would be a 100% 無殼蝸牛 (literally, a-snail-without-shell , popularly used in Taiwan, in particular, Taipei) - the landless/ homeless. How could it be and what a funny joke: the knowledge, working experiences with several hard-earned/ "invested credentials" from the US, would lead to such an incredible situation?

By the way, a couple days ago I compared the kind-n-wise remarks of Jung and Gates on my blog. If they did say so, not from the mischievous posters, then I found them handy for my self-examining the mistake that I have ever made and testing Max Weber’s notion of life-chance.

Understanding the simplicity hidden behind the above two positive-and-statements, now check with the invisible forces embedded in the human societies that C Wright Mills expounds arduously that without Sociological Imagination the mass will always be trapped in the taken-for-granted world and incapable of understanding the structural dimension of personal predicaments.  Coffin echoes this thought:

Reading smart and/or wise people's words might make us think why, who and how certain social structures have been so well-maintained and how tough it is to be "re-structured"-  by whom and how?

Haven't  the philosophers and most of the sociologists only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is - let somebodies else change it?

Now returning to my key point, being a sociology instructor, whether fortunately or unfortunately, tangoing between academic practice and social reality, declare: any social activists, reformers, or policy makers who dare to put a little bit more efforts to tackle the "snail-without-shell" issues, I think, I may reclaim my politic-economic interest, and engage more in dialogues and actions regarding this historically man-made disastrous problem, because if it could happen to me, one can imagine the pain and suffering of most people who have been trapped in their elephant-in-the-room social structure as their fateful destiny. 

In short, long time ago when I worked at the Congress (立法院- the Legislative Yuan, later at 行政院 - the Executive Yuan) in Taiwan, “住者有其屋” 只當是個有屋有宅, 大廈連雲者的清涼口號. 到如今, 卻是官官相護, 官商勾結的業障... - both in the US. and Taiwan.

Note - If one has to use self-exposure (yes, the tightly guarded, priceless confidentiality) as a final resort to get a message out, then you can image the SEVERITY of the issue - What a big and ill Elephant in the room :)!

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他山之石 : In history, lands belonged to monarchs, aristocrats, war lords, churches, and later, the capitalists. Peasants, surfs and proletarians worked on the landowners’ lands/factories. Generally speaking, land reform involves different scales of changing laws, regulations or customs regarding land ownership in "some civilized" societies.  Government may initiate policies to promote redistributing property - generally on agricultural lands. History shows that some land reforms did not come easily, and oftentimes, the bloody revolts or revolutions of land reform were the norm.

Just browsed through fb friend Andy Tung's post, and found how the Dutch deals with the housing issues:

"荷蘭社會住宅的現況與迷思" By Johanna Huang on October 6, 2014 in 社會 & 文化3



阿姆斯特丹 Wozoco 長青族住宅社區。（圖片來源：archidialog.com）
在荷蘭有超過三分之一的住宅單位是出租式社會住宅（台灣目前不到 0.1%），發展歷史已超過 150 年，制度上也相對完善，是因為荷蘭政府視居住權為每位公民的基本權利，而且近年來也成為其他國家社會住宅政策發展上的重要借鏡對象。為什麼荷蘭的社會住宅不會成為貧民住宅，也不會成為房地產炒作的工具呢？ 其原因可分別從房地產市場、補助政策、成立住宅協會（Housing association）等要素說起，接下來此文將從不同的角度介紹與剖析荷蘭社會住宅的現況。
社會住宅給誰住？社會住宅很便宜嗎？
2013 年底荷蘭將近有 300 萬戶出租住宅，其中約 240 萬戶是社會住宅（註 1），佔全國 40% 的家戶數，有人一定質疑：為什麼一個國家需要興建如此眾多的社會住宅呢？難道荷蘭人需要政府救助的比例這麼高嗎？ 以 2015 年為例，社會住宅的出租價格受到政府管制，房租不得超過 711 歐元／月，承租戶年收入則不得高於 34,229 歐元，才有資格申請承租社會住宅（荷蘭人平均年收入 37，876 歐元）。
依照此比例來看，荷蘭人可以申請社會住宅的資格，並非只鎖定在低收入戶和弱勢族群，不同於台灣社會普遍認為，中產階級既有能力負擔一般商業市場的住房。荷蘭政府較早就意識到社會住宅政策受益對象，不應只限定於傳統觀念中需救助的族群，無論是土生土長的荷蘭人或新移民，屬於低收入戶、身心障礙、長青族、單親家庭、社會新鮮人、甚至連ㄧ般家庭只要小孩比較多的，及被認定教育費用支出較高的雙薪家庭，都可在申請範圍內。其實在荷蘭社會住宅的租戶僅有約 5%，是供給無家可歸的人或無經濟來源的人居住。
出租社會住宅的關鍵單位：又是房仲、又是 NGO 的住宅協會
荷蘭社會住宅和ㄧ般房地產的租售市場是分開的，負責出租的單位是「荷蘭住宅協會（Housing Association）」，其擁有社會住宅的產權且負責租賃的服務，雖是不以營利為主要目的法人組織，因此賺來的盈利必須依法用於：增進該社區住宅的品質或空間維護；和社區管委會一起合作，防止社區犯罪、維護整潔、舉辦聯誼派對、維護社區運動休閒設施…等等。
除了能出租社會住宅，「住宅協會」視財務情況可「資金週轉」，將社會住宅出售或買回，售價以臨近的房地產價格為標準。為了避免投資炒作，社會住宅的銷售市場是受到限制的，社會住宅買主想將房地產脫手只能賣給原屬的住宅協會，賣出和買入價差有獲利或虧損由買主和住宅協會對分，這樣可以避免投資客炒作房價。
反觀日前台灣巢運的其中一項訴求：為確保障弱勢團體的居住權利，要求政府提供「只租不賣」的社會住宅；但另一方面，官方單位認為只租不賣的社會住宅，可能造成政府或住宅協會的營運虧損；雙方的衝突點，其實就在於無較健全的法源依據，可設立並規範專職處理社會住宅興建及租售的住宅協會，因此聽起來目前台灣的社會住宅建案，似乎只是創造了另一個讓建商炒房的新興市場。並非說不該開放社會住宅的買賣，但必須有ㄧ套完善的法源規範，才能避免落為投資客的炒房範疇。不過話說回來，在台灣不到 0.1% 的社會住宅比例，的確應該先以提供出租型社會住宅為首要之急。
社會住宅=貧民住宅？
當年荷蘭政府推動社會住宅的其一宗旨就是，為了要避免城市裡出現貧民窟，因此希望提供最基本的住宅單元，讓即便是弱勢居民也能夠住的舒服、健康。政策立意美好，雖然沒有了「貧民窟」，但荷蘭各地卻出現治安不好的「移民社區」（見圖，荷蘭台夫特 60 年代的 Poptahof 住宅社區），住著許多經濟條件相對弱勢的土耳其、摩洛哥、蘇里南裔等新移民戶，這些移民社區和荷蘭「主體社會」間的隔閡，也成為荷蘭甚至歐洲社會很大的問題。

荷蘭台夫特 60 年代的Poptahof住宅社區。（圖片來源：www.spaarhetklimaat.nl）
為了解決潛在的族群隔閡問題，荷蘭政府正在有計劃性地改建社會住宅。首先，讓部分社會住宅轉租，作為學生宿舍；其次，新的住宅建案必須結合一般和社會住宅，避免單一族群社區所形成的社會隔閡。
舉例來說，阿姆斯特的住宅社區 GWL-terrain 和鹿特丹的 The Red Apple 複合式住宅建案，都是將社會住宅和都市更新案結合在一起的案例，社區中同時存在社會住宅和一般私宅，外觀上並沒有什麼明顯的差異，這是因為政府透過補助社會住宅承租者的津貼，讓開發商和住宅協會，每月從社會出租住宅和一般出租住宅收取一樣的租金，進而維持住宅協會的營運利潤。

鹿特丹的 The Red Apple 複合式住宅建案。（圖片來源：KCAP Architects & Planners）
人人稱羨的荷蘭社會住宅制度，似乎是台灣值得追求的終極目標，但在這之中其實也充滿了許多迷思，希望此文能帶來些不同的見解，讓大家更深入地了解荷蘭的社會住宅到底是怎麼一回事。
註 1：所謂的社會住宅是由政府補助建造，合乎居住標準的房屋，以低於一般市場租金出租給收入較低或相對弱勢的居民，保障弱勢者的居住權益。

參考資料
1. Whitehead， C.， & Scanlon， K. (n.d.). Social Housing in Europe. London: London School of Economics and Political Science.
2. 荷蘭政府網站
3. 再談荷蘭土地與社會住宅政策
4. 盧佳宜， 社會住宅可行性評估及具體措施

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Feb. 21 (Sn), 2016. Beautiful people do not just happen!

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An inspiring achievement of Melanie Mark from our neighboring country !! Thanks, Elsa Rain.
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Ms. Mark is B.C.'s first female aboriginal MLA. who overcame family trauma, sex abuse, and poverty to reach the legislature.
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Xena Crystal Huang We, the People, vote (after doing the homework), because the real people who thrive, beat the odd, and overcome obstacles, just like most of us; who share their lives and represent the majority's voices, not just "stand" for the privileged, the rich, and the powerful.
Those who are "well taken" care of, such as, by the "Citizens United", surely are submissive to it...
Are you worrying about that there are not enough smart people who won't speak/stand for the politic-economic elites?



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