Launched in 2016, Social Housing Youth Innovation Project (YIP) has been practiced in four social housing in Taipei. The selected YIP teams carry out community projects that aim at facilitating resident participation, strengthening community awareness and establishing social support system in social housing neighborhoods.
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Projects that YIP teams have brought up in the neighborhoods involve a wide range of categories, from elderly/child care, public space design, neighborhood gardening, community online platform to community service. The outcome of YIP includes the significant increase of housing quality and residents' satisfaction in social housing. Most important of all. community formed within a social mix neighborhood has contributed to enhance social capital of the residents.
Realizing that social mix is the precondition of social housing neighborhoods, and that there are diverse housing needs which should be emphasized; that is the main topic of implementing the YIP project. Besides this, it is crucial that the selected teams are capable of communicating and interacting with residents. Moreover, they are aware that by embracing inclusiveness and diversity, a cohesive living environment can improve both individual and community well-being.
YIP focuses on how to activate residents in social housing, playing the role of facilitator to increase interactions among residents. There are three distinctive goals that distinguish YIP from other housing policies and projects: forming a community network with reciprocal characteristics, stimulating a new housing culture and pursue a more creative and inclusive housing policy.
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