Lin I-jen, a long-time observer of life in Aboriginal communities, says that in the past the government just offered compensation to resettle mountain residents, which was ineffective. This is because the tribal villages include both poor and well-off people, and compensation is dispensed through a complicated political and economic mechanism, as a result of which "generally the money doesn't get into the hands of poorer Aboriginal people."
長期研究原住民部落發展的林益仁指出，以往政府只採取補償方式安置山上住民，是很難改善問題的，因為部落裡有生活困難者，也有既得利益者，補償費透過複雜的政經分配機制，「往往到不了生活困苦的原住民手中。」