Jeonju City Holds the Nation's First Housing Welfare Expo

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[Jeonju=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Han-ho] Jeonju City, together with LH Jeonbuk Regional Headquarters (Head Kim Seung-cheol) and Jeonju City Housing Welfare Council, held the first-ever nationwide "2021 Jeonju Housing Welfare Expo" in the housing welfare sector on the 7th at the Korean Traditional Culture Center performance hall.

This expo was held simultaneously online and offline to promote housing welfare policies for the realization of housing rights and to spread a new housing culture. It proceeded in the order of an opening ceremony and awards ceremony, a housing welfare talk concert, and a housing welfare seminar.

Following the first part’s opening and awards ceremony, the second part, a housing welfare talk concert hosted by Kwon Ji-woong, director of Mindalpaengi Cooperative, featured Mayor Kim Seung-soo, Kim Jong-beom, head of the Housing Welfare Business Department at LH Jeonbuk Regional Headquarters, Kim Sun-young, officer of the Housing Welfare Policy Division at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and Professor Choi Byung-sook of the Department of Housing Environment at Jeonbuk National University. The event was conducted in a format where citizens asked questions and invited guests answered.

At this event, Mayor Kim Seung-soo and other invited guests sincerely responded to citizens’ opinions on housing welfare and housing rights, which were received in advance via SNS, including △Youth housing stability policies △Measures to improve the environment of old houses △Problems of permanent rental housing and improvement directions for public rental housing.

Finally, in the third part, a seminar themed "Community-based Housing Welfare and New Housing Culture," researcher Yoo Seung-soo of Jeonju Policy Research Institute, Chairman Kim Soo-dong of The Ham Plus Cooperative, and Professor Song Ah-young of the Department of Social Welfare at Gachon University each presented on the topics "Cases of Jeonju City Housing Welfare Policies and Regional Housing Policy Tasks," "A Housing Community Where Everyone Can Live Together as a Housing Right," and "Conditions for Applying Supported Housing as a New Housing Model," respectively.

Additionally, at the housing welfare expo that day, △Promotion of housing welfare policies by Jeonju City and LH △Outstanding works from the children’s housing welfare drawing contest △University students’ housing design works were exhibited in the lobby and outdoor spaces of the performance hall. An online housing welfare policy promotion hall and exhibition hall featuring 23 housing welfare network organizations in the Jeonju area were also operated.

Jeonju=Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Han-ho stonepeak@asiae.co.kr

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