Icheon City Receives Excellence Award for Fourth Consecutive Year in Gyeonggi Province's "2024 Housing Administration Excellence Evaluation"

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

The housing administration evaluation is conducted annually by Gyeonggi Province to enhance the level of housing administration services across the province through the dissemination of excellent policies and institutional improvements in accordance with the Housing Basic Act, Housing Act, and Collective Housing Management Act. With this award, Icheon City has earned the honor of receiving the 'Excellence Award' for four consecutive years.

The city was recognized for housing supply and quality improvement, revitalization of collective housing management, improvement of residential welfare, and participation achievements in housing administration, and was selected among the top 6 cities and counties in Group 3 in the quantitative evaluation. In the subsequent qualitative evaluation, the city received consistently high scores across various fields including community activation in collective housing, residential welfare, and self-support project implementation.

Major projects implemented by the city include residential environment improvement projects such as △Hope Housing Project △Housing Support Project for Vulnerable Groups including Persons with Disabilities △Rural Housing Repair Program △Collective Housing Support Project, and other programs including △Operation of Residential Welfare Information Center for Coexistence with Residential Vulnerable Groups, △Collective Child Care Project, △Mobile Property Acquisition Tax Consultation Service, and others.

In particular, the 'Residential Welfare Information Center for Coexistence with Residential Vulnerable Groups,' which operated in June of this year, is being evaluated as an excellent case.

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