LH Forms Policy Advisory Group to Improve Child Housing Welfare

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Chunhee] Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) is forming a policy advisory group to improve child housing welfare.

On the 23rd, LH announced that it has established the "Policy Advisory Group for Creating Child-Friendly Residential Environments" and held the first advisory meeting at the LH Yongsan Special Headquarters.

This advisory group was formed as a follow-up measure to the "Business Agreement for Guaranteeing Children's Housing Rights" signed last May by LH, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Good Neighbors, Save the Children, and the Green Umbrella Children's Foundation. It was organized to review and develop housing welfare and public housing projects from the perspective of children, the policy beneficiaries.

Since the agreement, LH has been making efforts to improve child housing welfare, including remodeling multi-family housing in Jeongwang-dong, Siheung-si, Gyeonggi Province last May and supplying it to five multi-child families, and in June establishing a "Child Vulnerable Group Housing Support Hotline" to promptly provide rental housing to housing-vulnerable children identified by child welfare organizations.

Through this advisory group, LH plans to build governance with 10 experts active in government, academia, related industries, and child welfare organizations and provide advice to improve child housing welfare.

At the first advisory meeting held that day, the advisory group operation plan was explained, and a discussion was held on the "Hamyang Seohacho Return-to-Farming and Return-to-Village Type Purchased Rental Housing." Seohacho in Hamyang-gun, Gyeongnam Province, is considered a case where local governments, LH, and parents cooperated to attract students to a school facing closure and revitalize the rural area. LH plans to install 12 purchased rental housing units and a child community space for families transferring to Seohacho.

LH plans to actively reflect the opinions of the child policy advisory group on community space design, facility arrangement, and operation programs in the design so that the Hamyang Return-to-Farming and Return-to-Village Type Purchased Rental Housing can become a successful example of child-friendly housing. In addition, LH will continue collaboration with the child policy advisory group in various fields.

Seo Changwon, Head of LH Housing Welfare Headquarters, said, "Together with the child policy advisory group, we will do our best to create LH public housing where children can live more comfortably and receive customized housing welfare services."

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