[연합시론] Byun Chang-heum needs to come up with practical measures to solve the ‘real estate dilemma



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Amid the rise in apartment prices and the ensuing jeonse crisis, expectations and doubts intersect with candidate Byeon Chang-heum, who was appointed Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation and oversees housing policy. Those who express anticipation for him draw on the knowledge he honed as academics and professors who specialized in urban planning, as well as the rich experience and practicality he accumulated while serving as president of the Seoul Urban Development Corporation (SH ) and the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH). However, skepticism is also difficult. The critical perspective is that there will be no difference in the policy of Kim Hyun-mi, who was a change in regulation, as he has emphasized the suppression of speculation and the return of unearned income rather than the principles of the market as long as there is a chance. The opposition already pushes candidate Byun, saying: “Administration leader Moon Jae-in’s failed housing policy was put into action” or “The shadow of former Cheong Wa Dae policy chief Kim Soo-hyun provoking divisions and conflicts over real estate policy, it’s flashing. ” In the hearing of the four ministerial candidates nominated this time in the statements of the opposition officials of the day, the main target of the attack is candidate Byun.

Candidate Byun also showed extreme caution in words and actions, as if taking into account this situation. On the 7th, he went to work at the hearing preparation office at the Seoul Government’s Gwacheon Complex Regional Construction Management Office, refraining from answering specific questions about the direction of housing policy, and ” I will say the direction of the policy after receiving several verifications during the hearing. ” Said. As for the introduction of ‘publicly owned housing’, such as conditional rental and buyback housing, which he has argued since his days as a teacher, he saved himself, saying, “There is no specific policy in place yet.” Rental housing is a system in which ownership of the land is left to the government and the sale price is reduced by selling only the building. In the case of a house with repurchase condition, only the right to dispose of the building is restricted, so that when it is sold, it is resold to the public as LH. Such a system attracted attention because it not only helped stabilize real estate prices and residential well-being for ordinary people, as it could drastically lower pre-sale prices, but also publicly redeemed market price gains, and they did develop some pilot projects, but they were largely not activated. This appears to have affected not only the deep-seated aspirations of the general public for “my home”, but also the unwillingness of the government and law enforcement agencies to open a business on a scale large enough to affect the real-estate market.

If candidate Byeon successfully passes the hearing and assumes the post of Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation, there is a high possibility that the public will start the housing business in earnest, which has been emphasized by the usual opinion. Candidate Byun, not only as an academic but also as the president of LH, observed the process of realizing this system in the form of a pilot project and walked away from interest without giving as much as expected. If he had dreamed of public office long enough to accept the post of Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, he would have studied the problems of this system and realistic follow-up measures more deeply than anyone. Candidate Byun also put his ideas on urban redevelopment into practice. Former president Lee Myung-bak, who has been criticizing the New Town project during the mayor of Seoul, suggested the ‘Seoul-like urban regeneration’ project as an alternative when he was president of SH, which became the cornerstone of the ‘New Deal for Urban Regeneration ‘of the current government. The New Deal of Urban Regeneration, which upholds community values ​​while maintaining community value rather than the ‘demolition and development’ method like the New Town Project, is expected to function as a new housing supply method if is adequately complemented.

Some sell candidate Byeon as an “ anti-market buried in ideology ”, based on his writings as an academic, but this is not necessarily the case when you read his writings. Candidate Byun wrote in ‘Decade of Democratic Government, What is the Left?’ In 2014 as co-author: “The negative evaluation of the policies of the participating governments came out because they tried to apply the beliefs of egalitarianism and excess balance to the real estate policies.” . It is the same today that the “excess of ideology” is the object of alert. The real estate market is now surrounded by fierce flames. To turn this light off immediately, you need a ready-made alternative. Candidate Byeon must clearly recognize that this is the first reason for his appointment as Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation. There is no margin to follow the failure of his predecessor, who is said to be ’24 defeats against 24 ‘.

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