Dongjak-gu-SH, Promotion of Happy Housing Complex Project Around Sangdo-dong Gokyeong Senior Center

Completion of complex buildings including swimming pools, public parking lots, Happy Housing, and senior centers scheduled by 2024

Lee Chang-woo, Mayor of Dongjak District (right), and Kim Se-yong, President of Seoul Housing and Communities Corporation, signed an MOU for the Sangdo-dong Life SOC Happy Housing Complex Project at Dongjak District Office on the 10th.

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Dongjak-gu (Mayor Lee Chang-woo) signed an agreement on the 10th with Seoul Housing and Communities Corporation (President Kim Se-yong) at the district office to promote the Living SOC and Happy Housing complex project around Gogyung Senior Center in Sangdo-dong (438 Sangdo-dong).

The project site is within walking distance of Soongsil University Station and Sangdo Station (Subway Line 7), offering excellent transportation accessibility. It is located near a university area with a high proportion of single-person youth households.

Compared to Seoul city, the area lacks living service facilities such as ▲parking lots ▲senior leisure welfare facilities ▲public sports facilities, resulting in high demand from residents for convenience facilities.

Accordingly, the district is promoting a Living SOC complex project utilizing underused public land and was finally selected as a ‘Happy Housing candidate site’ by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport last September.

This agreement aims for successful project execution to supply Happy Housing for youth housing stability and expand convenience facilities for residents. To prevent the spread of COVID-19, only a minimal number of representatives and related personnel attended.

The main contents include ▲free use and lease of the district’s shared property ▲establishment of plans for public facility construction and donation acceptance ▲measures to secure alternative parking lots during construction.

The district plans to complete a complex building by 2024 around Gogyung Senior Center in Sangdo-dong, with 2 basement floors and 8 above-ground floors, totaling 4,980㎡, including ▲a swimming pool ▲65 units of Happy Housing ▲public parking lot ▲district-run senior center.

Meanwhile, since the 6th local government term, the district has been promoting ‘Dongjak-gu-style public housing supply’ as a key project by attempting housing supply at the autonomous district level to realize universal housing welfare.

In particular, this year, Dongjak-gu became the first autonomous district in Seoul to build Happy Housing complex buildings combining senior centers and youth housing on the sites of Haksu Senior Center in Sadang 3-dong and Yaksu Senior Center in Sangdo 4-dong.

Lee Chang-woo, Mayor of Dongjak-gu, said, “Through this agreement, we expect to realize housing welfare and resolve residents’ long-standing wishes by expanding Living SOC. We will continue to do our best to make the district a livable city where all residents equally benefit through balanced development across the entire district.”

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