Housing is a requisite of our life along with food and clothes. Housing finance is divided public housing finance and private housing finance, Among 55 public funds,, National Housing Fund (NHF) is the third large scale in assets aspects and the fourt...
Housing is a requisite of our life along with food and clothes. Housing finance is divided public housing finance and private housing finance, Among 55 public funds,, National Housing Fund (NHF) is the third large scale in assets aspects and the fourth large scale in operation aspects. Till now, financing has been dependent upon markets such a s funds collected, national housing bonds, and application savings. Recently undergoing the crisis of foreign exchange, it occurred the decrease of assets value and a speedy rising of prices of real estate market. In this point, it is indispensable to look for a low-cost source of revenue. To fill the role of NHF and to activate the supply of public rent house in the future, it should be achieved to have a healthy NHF in finance, solving reverse margin condition converted from 2002 after witnessing the narrowing margin over years. Therefore, in this study, it was investigated about international and domestic circumstances for the NHF improvement.
In operation side, house size is enlarged to 85§^(3) from 60§^(3) in floor space of exclusive use under the crisis of foreign exchange. This made the middle-income class to exploit the NHF while leaving the poor out of the use. With the house supply ratio of 100%, NHF is to work on securing the residential life of the poor through furnishing public rent houses.
The ratio of public rent houses among house stock is 5.4% at the end in 1999; this is quite low in comparison with that of over 10% in developed countries. It is needed to focus on the housing policies in Japan that has been changed the quantitative enlargement, the improvement of residential environments, and the supply of public rent houses.
Also, it is required the establishment of new institution with the whole responsibility of NHF. Recently, the government made the trustee to be diversified adding Nonghyup and Wooribank to Kookmin Bank. But it is still lack of relieving the Fund from the condition of reverse margin. New institution with the complete charge will be effective in saving trustee fee and strengthening the support function of housing policies along with undertaking the responsibility for the execution of the NHF.