Daejeon City Transforms Vacant Houses into 'Community Facilities' for Residents

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Daejeon City announced on the 31st that it will promote the ‘2022 Vacant House Maintenance Project,’ which renovates vacant houses into community facilities for residents.

This project is one of the pledges of the 7th local government administration and is implemented by obtaining consent from owners of highly hazardous vacant houses and having each autonomous district renovate the vacant houses.

Since 2018, the city has renovated (demolished) a total of 33 vacant houses to create village parking lots, rest areas, and vegetable gardens.

This year, the city plans to renovate 20 vacant houses with a budget of 60 million KRW per district, totaling 300 million KRW across five districts. The renovation targets are houses that have been unoccupied for over a year or will no longer be used. Vacant houses located in redevelopment promotion zones, redevelopment areas, or residential environment improvement project zones are excluded from the renovation targets.

Separately from this project, the ‘Enforcement Decree of the Special Act on the Maintenance of Vacant Houses and Small-scale Housing,’ revised and enforced in October last year, allows the imposition of enforcement fines on owners of vacant houses with high safety risks if they fail to take appropriate safety measures.

Jung Hae-gyo, Director of the Urban Housing Bureau of the city, stated, “We will renovate neglected vacant houses in the city to create a pleasant urban environment and improve living infrastructure to provide a better residential environment.”

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