Icheon Awarded Excellence in Gyeonggi Province's 2024 Housing Administration Assessment for Fourth Consecutive Year

[Suwon Ilbo=Eom In-yong] Icheon announced on the 2nd that it has received the Excellence Award in Gyeonggi Province's '2024 Housing Administration Excellence Assessment for Cities and Counties.'

The housing administration assessment is conducted annually by Gyeonggi Province pursuant to the Housing Act, the Residential Building Act, and the Condominium Management Act to enhance housing administration services in Gyeonggi Province through dissemination of excellent policies and system improvements. With this award, Icheon has earned the honor of receiving the Excellence Award for four consecutive years.

The city was recognized for housing supply and quality improvement, promotion of condominium management, improvement of residential welfare, and housing administration participation performance, securing a position among the top 6 cities and counties in Group 3 in the quantitative evaluation. In the subsequent qualitative evaluation, the city also received uniformly high scores across each sector including community activation in condominiums, residential welfare, and independently supported project implementation.

Among the city's major projects, residential environment improvement initiatives include △Hope Housing Project △Support for residential vulnerable groups including people with disabilities △Rural Home Improvement Program △Condominium Support Projects, and other initiatives include △Operation of a residential welfare information center for coexistence with residential vulnerable groups △Integrated childcare project △Mobile field consultation for acquisition tax at the site.

In particular, the 'Residential Welfare Information Center for Coexistence with Residential Vulnerable Groups' operated in June this year has been recognized as an exemplary case.

Mayor Kim Kyung-hee of Icheon stated, "I believe it is very meaningful that Icheon's efforts to improve housing administration services have been recognized," and added, "Going forward, we will do our best to provide better housing administration services that citizens can experience firsthand."