LH Completes First Village Maintenance-Type Public Housing Project in Jindo Dongwoeri

▲ Jindo Dongoe Public Housing Overview and Surrounding Area Maintenance Case (Provided by LH)

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Chun-hee] Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) announced on the 15th that it has completed the first village maintenance-type public housing project in Dongwoeri, Jindo-gun, Jeollanam-do.

The village maintenance-type public housing project is a project that supplies demand-tailored public housing to local small and medium-sized cities and eup/myeon areas experiencing rapid population decline. In particular, it is a project that renovates villages through the establishment of systematic maintenance plans encompassing surrounding areas, and LH has been promoting the project in a total of 71 districts since selecting three pilot project districts in 2014.

The Jindo Dongwoeri village maintenance-type public housing project was selected in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's competition in 2015 and officially started the project in 2016, the following year. It was completed in February this year, becoming the first village maintenance-type public housing project completed since the pilot projects.

Based on residents' opinions, LH established a village maintenance plan, constructed 110 units of national rental housing and 40 units of permanent rental housing, and created facilities such as a movie theater, mural street, and community cultural welfare facilities in the surrounding area.

In particular, as the local government proposed the rental types in a bottom-up approach and recruited tenants, 467 people applied?about three times the number of households?and the contract rate reached 88%, reflecting strong resident response.

The small movie theater ‘Jindo Arirang Cinema,’ established together, has become a cultural space in Jindo, which had no movie theaters for the past 40 years, surpassing 100,000 cumulative viewers since its opening, and this project is evaluated to have revitalized Dongwoeri.

LH plans to take the lead in revitalizing small and medium-sized cities by promptly advancing projects underway in other regions through active consultations with local governments and the central government.

Park Sung-yong, head of LH’s Balanced Development Headquarters, said, “With the completion of the first village maintenance-type public housing project since the pilot projects, the project has settled on the right track. We will continue to actively strive to respond to the population decline in local small and medium-sized cities and create regional vitality.”

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