A rural, mountain and fishing village housing platform to address population decline and regional extinction
Eased housing supply standards for rural, mountain and fishing villages and a return-to-farming and rural-relocation REITs project
The Chungnam Institute announced that on August 31 it held a joint seminar at the institute under the theme ‘A Plan to Realize the Chungnam-Style Rural, Mountain and Fishing Village Housing Platform.’
The seminar, co-hosted by the LH Land and Housing Institute and the LH Daejeon-Chungnam Regional Headquarters, was attended by Chungnam Institute President Yun Hwang, Acting President of the LH Land and Housing Institute Heo Nam-il, and LH Daejeon-Chungnam Regional Headquarters Director Song Jin-seon, among others.
Lee Mi-hong, a center director at the LH Land and Housing Institute, presented, under the theme ‘A Plan to Realize a Rural, Mountain and Fishing Village Housing Platform to Address Population Decline and Regional Extinction,’ housing platform village models including a school-supporting village model, a local-food production and distribution village model, and a K-medical welfare village model. She proposed institutional improvements such as easing housing supply standards for rural, mountain and fishing villages and securing business viability for operators through a return-to-farming and rural-relocation REITs project.
Lee Gwan-ryul, Ph.D. of the Chungnam Institute, in ‘The Growth Process and Future Tasks of the Atopy Natural Healing Village,’ used the case of the atopy natural healing village in Geumsan-gun to present the following as future tasks for the rural, mountain and fishing village housing platform: △creating additional atopy natural healing villages and repairing existing aged houses △expanding healing facilities that utilize ecological streams and forests △broadening exchanges among native residents, migrants and schools △improving the advancement system centered on existing school districts △expanding a variety of jobs such as an atopy healing kit cooperative.
Song Gyu-ho, a director at the LH Daejeon-Chungnam Regional Headquarters, in ‘The Status and Tasks of the Chungnam Rural, Mountain and Fishing Village Housing Platform,’ presented the progress of the rural, mountain and fishing village housing platform that LH is pursuing in Chungnam, and proposed tasks such as measures to secure target sites and a locally tailored housing supply system.
Following the presentations, a comprehensive discussion was also held, chaired by Sung Jang-hwan, head of a research office at the LH Land and Housing Institute.
Nam Su-jung, a professor at Kongju National University who took part as a panelist, stressed, “It must be a project that enhances the creativity of the region and its residents, and it must reflect the demand of the people who will live on the rural, mountain and fishing village housing platform.”
Lee Seung-yeol, head of the Rural Vitality Division at the Chungcheongnam-do Provincial Government, said, “The rural, mountain and fishing village housing platform project should be linked to jobs at agro-industrial complexes, and the stability of project implementation must be secured through the rural agreement system.”
Kim Heung-jae, a department head at the LH Daejeon-Chungnam Regional Headquarters, proposed, “For the rural, mountain and fishing village housing platform to expand, there must be interest and financial support from metropolitan and basic local governments, the establishment of a collaboration framework among relevant central government ministries, and the overhaul of laws and systems related to the housing platform.”
President Yun Hwang stated that day, “In order to secure the balanced development of Chungnam and the sustainability of rural, mountain and fishing villages, I hope that the rural, mountain and fishing village housing platform being pursued by LH and the case of Geumsan in Chungnam will be mutually integrated and cooperate so that the policy expands further.”