Daejeon City Transforms Urban Eyesore Vacant Houses into 'Resident Convenience Facilities'

Daejeon City is transforming vacant houses, left abandoned like eyesores in the urban area, into convenient facilities for residents.

On the 6th, Daejeon City announced that it will expand resident convenience facilities by promoting the ‘2024 Vacant House Maintenance Project’ in cooperation with five autonomous districts.

The Vacant House Maintenance Project involves purchasing vacant houses that have been unoccupied or unused for over a year and refurbishing them into facilities that residents can use, such as parking lots, rest areas, and community gardens.

The main purpose of the Vacant House Maintenance Project is also to resolve social issues such as the risk of safety accidents from the collapse of vacant houses, the possibility of crimes occurring in neglected spaces, damage to the urban landscape, and the generation of foul odors.

Daejeon City plans to purchase and refurbish eight vacant houses this year with a budget of 2 billion KRW. This month, applications for purchase from vacant house owners will be accepted through the autonomous districts, and next month, project recipients will be selected, subsidies will be granted to the districts, and in the second half of the year, the purchase and refurbishment of vacant houses will proceed in earnest.

Separately, as the results of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety’s vacant house maintenance project contest will be announced this month, Daejeon City explained that it will actively promote residential environment improvement projects through the demolition of vacant houses according to the results.

A Daejeon City official said, “The Vacant House Maintenance Project is being promoted to solve social problems caused by leaving vacant houses unattended,” and added, “We will continue the Vacant House Maintenance Project so that residents can live in a pleasant environment.”

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