Jeongeup-si 'Hope House Vacant House Remodeling Project' Promotion

Published 11 May.2022 11:57(KST)

[Jeongeup=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Jaegil] Jeongeup City in Jeonbuk supports remodeling costs for vacant houses that spoil the urban landscape and cause social problems such as safety accidents and crimes.

According to the city on the 11th, vacant houses that have long been uninhabited or unused and have become eyesores can cause various social problems, including deterioration of the landscape, safety accidents, and crime occurrences.

Accordingly, the city is investing 120 million won in a project to renovate abandoned rural vacant houses through the Hope House Vacant House Remodeling Project.

The Hope House Vacant House Remodeling Project repairs vacant houses left unattended due to aging and population decline in rural areas, supporting socially vulnerable or low-income households or utilizing them as rental housing to help returnees to farming and rural areas settle stably.

The main project content is to support vacant house owners with up to 20 million won for vacant house regeneration costs, assisting in remodeling into comfortable living spaces through boiler installation, restroom maintenance, window replacement, and more.

Afterward, vacant house owners must rent the houses free of charge to tenants for a mandatory period of five years.

To promote the project this year, the city has been recruiting lessors (vacant house owners) since March and selected six vacant houses as project targets after reviewing the aging and usability of the vacant houses.

In this regard, the city is recruiting tenants for the Hope House Vacant House Remodeling Project until the 20th.

Tenant application qualifications include basic livelihood security recipients, lower-income groups, single-parent families, returnees to farming and rural areas, local students, newlyweds, seniors aged 65 or older or their caregivers, and persons with disabilities.

Applications can be submitted by downloading the form from the Jeongeup City website’s Notices and Announcements section and visiting the Architecture Division or the relevant Eup, Myeon, or Dong community service center.

A city official said, “The Hope House Vacant House Remodeling Project is expected to greatly help prevent safety accidents and village landscape damage caused by the increase in vacant houses while supporting neighbors in vulnerable housing situations and the settlement of returnees to farming and rural areas.”