GH, Full-Scale Promotion of 'Space Welfare Project' Utilizing Vacant Houses

Gyeonggi Housing and Urban Corporation

Gyeonggi Housing and Urban Corporation (GH) is set to actively promote the 'Vacant House Utilization Space Welfare Project,' which transforms vacant houses in urban areas into community facilities for residents.

On the 16th, GH announced that it held a groundbreaking ceremony for the first space welfare project utilizing vacant houses, the Dongducheon Child Care Center (located in Saengyeon-dong, Dongducheon City).

GH and Gyeonggi Province will invest 5.5 billion KRW to construct a community facility with a total floor area of 871.66㎡, consisting of one basement floor and three above-ground floors. Dongducheon City will use this facility as a care space for children living in residential welfare blind spots.

GH is focusing on space welfare by utilizing vacant houses and other idle land to provide various community facilities such as playgrounds, senior centers, and kindergartens for local residents in multi-family and multiplex "villa villages" where various living infrastructures are lacking.

The Child Care Center is the first case of the space welfare project introduced and promoted by GH.

Kim Se-yong, President of GH, stated, "We will supply various public facilities utilizing vacant houses and other idle spaces in residential welfare blind spots densely populated with old multi-family, multiplex, and row houses where community facilities are severely lacking, in the right places at the right time. We hope that this vacant house utilization business model will serve as an opportunity to activate voluntary vacant house maintenance projects in 31 cities and counties across the province."

Meanwhile, the groundbreaking ceremony was attended by Kim Se-yong, President of GH; Park Hyung-deok, Mayor of Dongducheon; and Kim Ki-beom, Director of the Gyeonggi Province Urban Regeneration Promotion Team.

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