There is no country to solve the housing problems perfectly. The advanced countries also suffer from, and search the solutions for them just with different characteristics one another. Quantitative 100% of housing supply doesn't mean that 100% of the ...
There is no country to solve the housing problems perfectly. The advanced countries also suffer from, and search the solutions for them just with different characteristics one another. Quantitative 100% of housing supply doesn't mean that 100% of the residents dwell in their own houses, and, therefore, the effort of housing stabilization for the vulnerable, the alienated or the low income class is being required at the world's level.
Korea had suffered from urban population concentration and the income disparity resulting from 1970 ~ 1980 rapid economic growth, which caused massive housing supply necessary. As a result that both the public and the private made an effort to briskly develop and supply housing units, the problem of housing shortage was improved largely, but the housing need of the low income class was not satisfied sufficiently, which has had an negative influence on social mix.
The National Rental Housing is being supplied for 1 million housing units up to 2012. The central government has intervened a housing market broadly, leading housing supply through the detailed regulations on public housing supply, financial support, distribution system, rental fee, etc. and the system for continuous and stable housing supply. The eligibility to occupy the National Rental Housing is determined by the occupants' income level as well as housing services.
The Government, faced with the change point of the housing policy by the National Rental Housing, is promoting to expand its stock for the housing stabilization of the low income class and the realization of housing welfare to improve the housing level and welfare of each household.
The limit of applicable land for the National Rental Housing can be expected to cause urban infrastructure overinvested by urban expansion for supplying the houses. The method of the National Rental Housing, therefore, should not be limited to new residential land development, but including the purchase of existing multi-unit tenement rental housing, and the more housing unit than the related regulation in reconstruction or redevelopment by increasing density in planning to draw tenants from suburb to downtown area.
In planning social mix and intimacy through community programs and various cultural content development may form a fundamental of local communities. The effective and efficient supply of the National Rental Housing requires; the consideration of social mix, the supply plan connected with local demand, the efforts for lowering the residential expense of the low income class, the acquisition of proper housing land, planning and improvement method of land, the efforts of housing estate plan for the comfortable urban development, the physical methods for social mix, and the additive proposals of housing policy or system.
To get out of the common idea that the residents of the National Rental Housing are the low income class the complementary methods in planning for maintaining a housing unit, the future-oriented design and planning, and the differentiated supply of larger housing units should be established, and they can contribute to converting the mind of housing from ownership to occupancy. The Analysis on the occupants' age shows that most of them are the senior, and the facilities and environment should be considered in planning.
This study aims the complementary relations for the effective and efficient supply methods of the National Rental Housing, meaningful to establish the boundary of it. In the future the following study should be executed on supply method, development plan, operation, estate and housing design, etc. through the continuous confirmation on the satisfaction degree of post occupancy and related higher-level plan after completing construction.
Key words: the National Rental Housing, supply policy, satisfaction degree, preference degree, improvement methods.