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The Tasks of Housing Policy for the Independent Living of Disabled People

Seo JongGyun 1

1한국도시연구소

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ABSTRACT

The idea of independent living makes it easier to understand what disabled people feel. It can also be power to confront present problems. With this point of view, this paper defines disabled people's housing problems and suggests some policy recommendations for the problems. Their housing problems defined in this paper are as follows; First, they are more often found in the most seriously poor housing conditions, like homelessness; Secondly, people living in institutions can not choose where to live but they are forced to live there; Thirdly, living independently in communities can give various opportunities to disabled people in the future, but they still have many difficulties to choose it because of the lack of support. Policy recommendations to deal with these matters are as follows; First, a variety of housing policies should be improved to secure independent living of disabled people. To define and evaluate their housing needs can be the starting point; Secondly, housing support services, which help disabled people to settle down in communities and to build their abilities to live independently, need to be introduced.

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