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The Owned Island
Taiwan is one of the highest-homeownership societies in the world. In a crowd of 2,000 Taiwanese, 1,680 own their home. They are the norm. Renting is the exception, the temporary, the shameful. Homeownership has been a cultural value for generations, baked into the social contract. Your house is not an investment — it's proof you belong.
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Taiwan's homeownership rate exceeds 84% — one of the highest in the world. Yet housing affordability is among the worst in Asia. Ownership is high because it is inherited, not because it is achievable.