The New Taipei City Government is offering a rent subsidy program for young people living near MRT stations this year. The program is expected to provide subsidies to 200 applicants, and 68 slots are still available. The requirements for applying have also been relaxed, and applications are being accepted again. Single young people no longer have to provide copies of household registration documents from their next of kin to prove that they are registered for the same household.
New Taipei City’s Urban and Rural Development Department Commissioner Chang Fan says that applicants only have to fill out their parents’ national ID numbers, which allows the agency in charge to find all of the relevant financial and tax data that it needs.
The subsidy is aimed at helping young people between 20 and 40 years of age who work or go to school in New Taipei City to live in an administrative area with an MRT station, train station, or a bus line with a route that includes an MRT station. Applicants must not own a house or have parents who own a house in New Taipei City or Taipei, and must have an annual income that meets the necessary requirements in order to obtain the monthly rent subsidy of NT$2,000 for up to 12 months.
Photo: Kuo Yen-hui, Liberty Times
照片：自由時報記者郭顏慧
The bureau’s Housing Development Division Chief Chang Shou-wen says that the current second round for accepting applications ends on March 14. Go to https://rent.planning.ntpc.gov.tw for more information.
(Liberty Times, Translated by Kyle Jeffcoat)
新北市政府今年推出「捷運青年住宅租金補貼」，預計兩百個名額，開放申請至今還剩六十八個，決定放寬條件，即日起再接受申請，單身青年不需與直系親屬設籍於同一戶籍、也免附戶籍謄本。
新北市城鄉發展局局長張璠表示，申請人只要填寫父母的身分證字號，作業單位就可主動查詢相關財稅資料。
這項補助是針對在新北市工作或就讀的廿歲到四十歲單身青年，居住在新北市內有捷運、捷運先導公車通行的行政區，或火車站設點的各行政區皆可，申請人及父母在新北市與台北市都沒有自有住宅，且家庭年收入符合規定，就可獲得每月二千四百元的租金補貼，最長十二個月。
城鄉局住宅發展科科長張壽文說，第二次受理申請至三月十四日止，民眾可上網至「新北市租屋資訊網」（https://rent.planning.ntpc.gov.tw）查詢。
（自由時報記者黃邦平）
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