Bucheon City Actively Identifies Housing-Vulnerable Groups... Supports Relocation to Public Rental Housing

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyesook] Bucheon City in Gyeonggi Province is actively working to identify candidates for housing upgrade support to assist vulnerable housing groups in relocating.

The city announced on the 3rd that it is accelerating the identification of candidates together with the collection department's delinquency management team field investigators to promote the "Housing Upgrade Support Project for Vulnerable Housing Groups," a project selected by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and currently carried out by the city's Housing Welfare Center.

So far, the city has supported relocation to public rental housing for non-housing residents living in goshiwon (small, cheap rooms) and yeoinsuk (boarding houses), as well as vulnerable housing groups living in semi-basement units requiring relocation due to flooding.

To actively identify candidates, the city plans to implement the project in stages, including preliminary promotion of the housing upgrade support project, on-site visits and surveys, housing welfare counseling, support for relocation to public rental housing, and linkage to necessary services.

Last month, the city used data on semi-basement houses at risk of flooding to send project support notices to the relevant addresses, and from the 7th of this month to the 16th of next month, field investigators will visit households directly to conduct demand surveys on housing welfare.

Furthermore, until November, the city will promote the housing upgrade support project and conduct on-site surveys targeting recipients of housing benefits living in underground floors and non-housing units (goshiwon and yeoinsuk).

Eligible candidates for the project must be members of homeless households who have lived in vulnerable housing for more than three months and meet income and asset criteria.

A Bucheon City official stated, "We plan to actively identify candidates in cooperation with the city's Housing Welfare Center and related departments to support housing stability and upgrades for vulnerable housing groups."

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