For understanding the status of rebuilding military dependents' villages, with councillor Li-Geng Guei-Fong's helps, we have interviews with Mr. Shih-Yi Lou and Ms. Yu-Shiou Lin in the Department of Urban Development Taipei City Government. With their helps, we acquired the beginning and the status of rebuilding military dependents' village. The organization was called as “the Department of Public Housing”.

About 1971, the villages already had more than twenty years history. The living environment was getting worse because the houses were old and they were having illegal residences built because of lacking of enough space. The Department of Defense started doing research on rebuilding those villages in 1977. They recorded down some key points for rebuilding old military dependents' villages. They started rebuilding villages based on the belief of taking care of military dependents and improving their living qualities. Based on the point, the Department of Defense can work with the central government or city government to build public housing. Or they are able to build the housing by themselves.

“if the Department of Defense work with the central government or the city government, the Department of Defense offers the land in military dependents' villages, and the government need to provide the funds of the construction, setup the construction plan, design, find the construction company, start the construction, do the valuation, sell the houses, and manage the community. After the construction is complete, the whole area of the construction will be divided into two. The military will take one of the halves and assign it to the original military dependents. If there is more houses, they sell it to the soldiers without any housing; the government will take the other half and sell it to all the citizens who are qualified for this purchasing.”

“For the purpose of taking care of military dependents and to reduce their loading of purchasing a house, the city government will pay the moving fee and rent for the original residents. Also, they pay some allowance, which is 69.3% of the price of their land, for purchasing a house. The residents will pay the rest of price.” Ms. Lin explained.

On 1980, the Department of Defense signed a written agreement of using the land in military dependents' villages to build public housing with the city government. Each involved army force followed this agreement and provided lands in the village and work with the city government. They signed up an agreement to ensure rights and benefits for both sides.

On 1981, the military provided lots of military dependents' village lands, which were located in the center of the city, such as, DaAn Public Housing, New XinAn Village , and ChengGong Public Housing. There were more than five thousand and seven hundred houses built. In addition, there were over thousands houses built in the following communities, ZhongTuo, ZhongZheng, HuGuang, QingNian, ZhengYi, YanShou Public Housings. During the early 80s, the available military dependents' villages were getting reduced. Except the large-sized community, new SongShan Village , which includes over two thousands housing, the rest of villages are small-sized communities, which includes less than two hundreds housing.

“During 1951, all military dependents' villages were located in the edge of Taipei city. However, with urban development, those edges became the commercial district or the residence district for the city. And those old villages distract the urban development. The land in Taipei is expensive and valuable. Old military dependents' villages did not meet the economical efficiency.” Mr. Lou said, “Rebuilding those villages does not only improve their living environment, but also provide public housing for all the citizens in Taipei with a cheap price. This is definitely speeding up the renews and developments in this metropolis. Both Taipei government and the military were benefited from rebuilding military dependents' villages. Also, after rebuilding, not only the original residents moved in but also the regular citizens moved in. “Bamboo Fence” did not exist anymore since there was no wall between military dependents' villages and the world.”

On 1999, for following the policy of suspending building public housing from the central government, and also, the architecture business was running well and blooming in the public, the government stopped building public housing. The project of public housing was completed in this state. On March 3 rd , 2003 , the Department of Urban Development continued the incomplete construction of public housing, its sales, and changing their goal to sell residence business, the department did not get involved with rebuilding military dependents' villages anymore.

Since 1980, the military work with the government for rebuilding military dependents' villages, the city government rebuilt 77 villages and built 29453 public houses.