Minister Noh Hyung-wook: "Supply 10,000 Senior Welfare Housing Units by 2025"

On the 27th, visited Yeongu Rental Housing in Beondong, Seoul to listen to residents' difficulties and emphasize quarantine management

Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Noh Hyung-wook visited the permanent rental housing in Beondong, Seoul on the 27th to listen to the residents' difficulties and emphasize quarantine management. / Provided by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that Minister Noh Hyung-wook visited the permanent rental housing in Beondong, Seoul on the 27th ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday to meet with residents, listen to their difficulties, and check the status of housing support for vulnerable groups.

Beondong, Seoul, is where the first permanent rental housing in Korea was built in 1990. The government plans to install a visiting My Home Center at the Beondong permanent rental housing within this year, expand senior welfare housing in idle spaces within the complex, and implement green remodeling on aging houses.

Minister Noh said, "Through this project, residents will enjoy various housing welfare services such as job provision and food sharing with housing welfare experts, electricity and windows will be replaced reducing maintenance costs, and kitchens and bathrooms will be improved significantly enhancing living conditions."

He added, "At this point where most permanent rental housing like Beondong is aging, we will carry out green remodeling projects for old public rental housing to improve the energy performance of 186,000 rental housing units and enhance living conditions."

Minister Noh also emphasized, "Along with this, we will do our best to supply 10,000 senior welfare housing units that combine rental housing and social welfare facilities by 2025 in preparation for a super-aged society."

Furthermore, he stated, "As the housing market enters a stable phase ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, on-site customized housing welfare for vulnerable groups should be strengthened, and quarantine measures must be managed thoroughly."

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