Pohang City Develops Single-Family Housing Complex for Youth Rural Settlement... Supporting Young Farmers and Returnees to Settle

Selected for the 2025 Youth Rural Settlement Project by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
Young Farmers Take the Lead... Building a Sustainable Rural Development Model

Pohang City has been finally selected for the ‘2025 Youth Rural Settlement Public Contest Project’ organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.

They are taking a commemorative photo for being selected in the Youth Rural Settlement Contest on January 24. Provided by Pohang City.

The Youth Rural Settlement Housing project aims to help young people in rural areas settle stably by reducing their housing and childcare burdens and improving living conditions. Through this contest, the city plans to promote the project with about 5 billion KRW of national funding support.

Pohang City plans to build 28 detached houses and community convenience facilities for young returnees to farming and rural areas in the Maesan-ri area of Heunghae-eup. The project site is located near Heunghae Seobu Elementary School and its attached kindergarten, which is expected to play an important role in solving housing and childcare issues for young people.

In addition, the city intends to provide systematic support so that young returnees to farming and rural areas can take root stably in the countryside by linking with the nearby Agricultural Technology Center.

This project is expected not only to support the stable settlement of young farmers but also to contribute to population inflow and economic revitalization in rural areas. In particular, Pohang City plans to create a sustainable rural development model led by young farmers starting with this project.

Besides this project, the city is promoting the supply of public housing in various ways to improve the housing conditions of youth and workers, including ▲selection for job-linked support housing contest ▲construction of youth stepping-stone housing ▲re-leasing of public housing owned by LH, and plans to continuously expand youth housing support projects to create a Pohang where talent can stay by improving youth settlement conditions.

Heo Jeong-wook, Director of the Urban Safety and Housing Bureau, said, “Through this project, we will actively support young farmers to settle in rural areas by providing a pleasant and stable housing and childcare environment,” and added, “We will continue to improve local living conditions.”

Aerial view of the Youth Rural Settlement detached housing complex.

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