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| ▲ Byeon Chang-heum, Chairman of the Korea Land and Housing Corporation, attends the General Meeting of the Land, Infrastructure and Transportation Committee held at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul, on the morning of August 3 and makes a business report . | |
| Ⓒ Yoo Seongho |
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“We have to look for rental housing and alternatives that are different from the previous offer (public sale).” (Candidate Chang-Hum Byun, Minister of Lands, Infrastructure and Transport)
In the age of making money selling land, whether public or private, the opinion of Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) President Byun Chang-heum, who was appointed as the next Land Minister, is clear. He strongly believes that the public should not make money from selling land while providing housing. Can your philosophy and beliefs turn the backbone in the normalization of the real estate market?
Candidate Byun’s career is unique. After working with civic organizations such as the Korea Urban Research Institute and Environmental Justice (Professor Sejong University), Park Won-soon entered public office as president of the Seoul Urban and Housing Corporation (SH Corporation) when he was mayor of Seoul. He, who served as president of LH, was also appointed Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.
Previous comments … “Cheap housing is key”
Candidate Byun criticized the high pre-sale prices of public apartments during the days of a civic group, emphasizing not only the ‘supply’ but the ‘supply of affordable housing’. At the same time, he also suggested alternatives for the public to offer housing at low prices, such as renting houses on land.
Candidate Byun was the director of the Land Justice Center for Environmental Justice in 2006. <한겨레>Wrote an article on ‘Affordable housing supply is the key’. At the time, the public-led large-scale housing offering such as Pangyo New Town and Eunpyeong New Town was taking place, but it was a time when the controversy over the high sale prices of the apartments continued.
In this article, he criticized: “If the supply of new houses drives the increase in the prices of existing houses, the only solution to suppress the increase in house prices is to deny the logic of the expansion of development, which is to expand the supply of housing “.
Meanwhile, he proposed a method of supplying public apartments that could prevent the high sale of apartments. The land is owned by the public and only the buildings are sold to the private sector, and the home is sold under the condition of redemption, which is sold by the public but must be sold to the public. It is also the highlight of his housing policy philosophy.
He argued, “It is an alternative that provides housing at the level of half the presale price, but enough to consider land rental housing or conditional redemption housing that can be publicly owned or sold only to the public.” The supply of housing in the form of land owned by the public is a form of housing supply that civic groups such as the Citizen Alliance for the Practices of Economic Justice and Solidarity Participation have always defended.
After entering public office … “I have not changed”
Byun Naejeongja later took up public office, but had difficulty realizing his philosophy as a politician. In the position of presidents of public corporations such as Seoul Housing and Urban Corporation (SH Corporation) and Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH), where he passed, changing the course of government policies or seeking institutional reforms, he himself felt limited.
It was right after the Citizens Federation for the Practice of Economic Justice held a press conference in February directed at candidate Byun, who was the president of LH, to take up a problem with public land businesses like Wirye New Town. Candidate Byun at the time <오마이뉴스>And he spoke of the difficulties. The position on the introduction of conditional redemption housing and land rental housing has not changed. He explained: “There are some areas of caution because public companies are not in a position to formulate policies.”
Candidate Byun said at the time: “I am making a proposal (introduction of conditional buyback and rental housing), but there are some parts that are not working well.” He also explained.
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| ▲ Byun Chang-heum, Chairman of Housing and Urban Corporation (center), Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Seoul Social Housing Center, Kim In-je (right), and Franz Sumnich Bekaka Dry Architects, Austrian Social Housing Architect ‘Zagfabric’, attended Seoul Housing in Gangnam-gu, Seoul We meet in city corporations and talk about social housing that is attracting attention to solve housing problems. | |
| Ⓒ Yoo Seongho |
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The president of a public corporation with limitations … Still, social housing
It was not without results. When he was president of SH Corporation, he presented the result of looking at the advertised housing offer instead of selling the land. The land is publicly owned and management is left to the socio-economic actors. The renovated social housing of the LH hotel, recently praised by Minister Kim Hyun-mi, was also the work of Nae Jeong Byun.
If you become Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport through a staff audience, you have greater authority. There is no excuse for being in a position to directly determine the government’s housing policy. However, many situations are not easy.
The rise in house prices has continued during the three years of Moon Jae-in’s administration. Speculators are speculating with apartments in unregulated areas, driving up the housing price bubble. Home rental business owners who receive huge preferential treatment, such as a comprehensive real estate tax exemption or reduction, are actually ignoring their obligations, such as the upper rent limit.
The conservative press is shaking the government’s real estate policy, saying that due to the lack of high-selling apartments due to the implementation of the ceiling on the sale price of private residential land. The contradictory logic that “the price of the house goes up because the sale price does not go up too much” is repeated as true. The government is losing confidence due to the maintenance of preferential treatment for existing rental housing businesses and the implementation of clamps that limit the private sale price.
As the Moon Jae-in administration’s term is less than two years away, there isn’t much time left for candidate Byun. Still, there is room to wait.
Byun Chang-heum’s belief, the third new city is the proof
Candidate Byun was announced on the 4th, right after the list of restructuring ministers was announced. <오마이뉴스>I made one thing clear on the phone. Although the introduction of rental housing or the repurchase of conditional housing was not directly discussed, it was necessary to discuss the offer of public housing mainly for sale.
When asked for the supply direction of public apartments, such as the third new city, he said: “We will continue to discuss how to supply land.” Furthermore, he said, “unlike the old supply methods (public apartments mainly for sale), rent and alternative housing need to be (discussed) specifically.”
Civic groups such as that of solidarity participation also expressed expectations. Jeong Se-eun, a member of the Participatory Solidarity Center for Fiscal and Financial Reform, said: “Although the market is in a confusing situation, it can be expected from the fact that there is a strong belief in public rental housing, such as the rental of land “. I think there will be a boost because I have experience ”.
Choi Eun-young, director of the Korea Urban Research Institute, said: “The nominee Byun Chang-heum is the best card that the current government can use,” he said. “Because he has a strong conviction about public housing rental policies, such as land rental, he will certainly follow him even as minister.
Kim Seong-dal, director of the Citizens Alliance for Economic Justice, said: “Although Byeon suggested the philosophy of housing policies such as land leasing, LH and SH Corporation provided housing in this way for only a few.” We will have to see what to do. ”
