Although more than 90 % of the nation's urban Aborigines are safely housed (60 % in homes they own and 30 % in rentals), the history of transiency among the residents of the Sanying Community encapsulates how Taiwanese Aborigines have, since the 1960s, been leaving their hometowns for lives of wandering.
雖然全國超過 9 成的都原已經安居（6 成住進自有住宅，3 成租屋而居），但三鶯部落族人的流浪史，仍是 1960 年代以來，原住民離鄉謀生、遷移漂泊的縮影。