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The Characteristic of Long-term Public Housing in Korea : Focusing on the discussion of M. Harloe and J. Kemeny

김수현 1

1세종대학교

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ABSTRACT

It has long history of discussion on the issue of the characteristics of public housing in the advanced countries. J. Kemeny has defined two types of rental market; unitary rental market system and dual rental market system. M. Harloe also raised issues on public housing system in a different context. Those countries with plenty of public housing stock not only for the lower class were classified as mass model, and the contrary residual model. Public housing which started in 1989 first in Korea is a typical form of residual model as the stock is so small and most residents are from lower income group. In addition many of the stock are for the substitution of the shanty housing which destroyed by urban redevelopment program. Mayor of Seoul Metropolitan City, Oh Se-hoon, however, introduced a new public housing program called shift housing in 2007 which aims at shifting of housing paradigm from ownership to living itself. He pledged to supply as many public housing as possible including for the upper class, which he believes will change the present residualised public housing system to mass model. This paper discussed the possibility and limits of shift housing, and concludes that it is difficult for the new plan to change the characteristics of public housing. First of all the plan itself still falls short of mass model with respect to its quantity. Moreover the accomplishment of the plan is uncertain as it depends much on the housing boomthat already entered to a depressed period. But the shift housing contributed to improve the image of public housing and enhance localization of housing policy.

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