Old Housing Life Extension Program Receives 1,359 Applications; Second Round Expected as Early as January to May 2027
The Ministry of the Interior has released progress on the Old Housing Life Extension program: 1,359 applications received to date, and apartment communities can apply for a subsidy by repairing just 1 shared area.
- The Ministry of the Interior said the Old Housing Life Extension program has received 1,359 applications, and the second round will be announced by cities and counties as early as January to May 2027.
- For repairs to shared areas in apartment communities, doing just 1 item qualifies for a subsidy, and a management committee does not need to be set up first.
- Subsidies for individual cases range from NT$1 million to more than NT$11 million (1100 wan), roughly 45% to 62% of total construction costs.
The Ministry of the Interior held a press conference on October 22, 2026, after its ministry affairs meeting to report on the progress of the Old Housing Life Extension program. Nationwide, 1,359 applications have been received in total, of which 1,285 are townhouse-style homes and 74 are apartments.
By city and county, Tainan City ranks first with 357 applications, of which 352 are townhouse-style homes. New Taipei City has accepted 122 applications in total, 95 of them townhouse-style homes; in the apartment category, New Taipei City has the most with 27.
Twenty-one cities and counties across the country have launched the program, and application consultations total more than 26,000 person-visits. Kinmen County is expected to join on November 4, 2026, at which point all 22 cities and counties will be accepting applications. As for the second round, it is expected as early as January to May 2027, to be announced separately by each city and county government.
Apartment buildings must first bring all owners' opinions together. The Ministry of the Interior said that although applications have only been open for a few months, there are already 74 apartment applications, and many communities are building consensus or preparing documents with guidance from service teams. The repair items applied for include adding elevator equipment, exterior wall repairs, roof insulation and waterproofing, indoor accessibility improvements, and floor slab leveling.
The Old Housing Life Extension program has a budget of NT$5 billion, with an implementation period from 2025 to the end of 2027, and is expected to be fully carried out before 2028. Tsai Chang-chan, Director-General of the National Land Management Agency, said the 2026 budget is about NT$1.7 billion, including service costs such as commissioning professional teams, with housing repair subsidies of about NT$1.15 billion, and the 2027 budget is about NT$3.45 billion. The National Land Management Agency noted that subsidies can only be claimed after repair work is completed; the Ministry of the Interior is studying whether to include the subsidies in the regular budget, to be reviewed later based on implementation results.
Owners of old townhouse-style homes or old apartments can first check with their city or county whether the program has been launched, and when the second round will be announced. Even if an apartment building has no management committee, residents can start with the repair of 1 shared area and first build consensus among residents. Because subsidies can only be claimed after the work is completed, those planning repairs should arrange payment for the construction costs in advance.
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- For an apartment community applying for an Old Housing Life Extension subsidy, how many shared areas must be repaired at minimum?
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