TSUEI MA MA Foundation for Housing and Community Services

taipei Taiwan

NGO / Public Service

Tsuei Ma-Ma（TMM ）Housing Center was established on Oct. 15, 1989 to address issues of lack of affordable rental housing and to break the monopoly control by private rental agencies in metropolitan area of Taipei. It is named after Mrs. Tsuei-Chen SweiJing who was one starting volunteer’s mother of “Houseless People’s Union”(Also called “Shell-less snail”), attended the hundred houseless couples wedding which took place at CKS Memorial Hall staged by “Shell-less snail”. She passed away of lung cancer on Oct. 1, 1989 – 3 days after the activity. We honor her by naming this group as she support “Housing is the basic right of human”.