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I ask the mayor of Seoul… Where is the housing policy for tenants?
Seoul is a city of tenants ③ Young tenants who want to live in a house rather than a room

In the 21st general election last year, officials from youth organizations such as the National Youth Policy Network, Youth Union, Slug Union, and Youth Participation Solidarity proposed youth policies such as housing rights and labor rights. By Kim Hye-yoon, staff reporter
Hi. It is a young tenant who is living with a’forever’, collecting deposit and paying monthly rent. Whenever I see an article that young people are busy buying and selling houses these days, it makes me feel strange. Young people living in’Hell’s High School’ (Ban underground, rooftop room, and Gosiwon) and young people living in buildings that are not registered as houses due to the burden of housing expenses are still full of me. The wages that young people, including me, receive do not change much, but the homes they live in only get more expensive every day. How many years have young people acquired so many assets that they all became end users?
‘Shinbangchon’ of the university district… Living in a room rather than a house
My friend lives in a building that violates the building code. Do you know what the offending building is? It refers to splitting a room and leasing it as if it were two rooms from the beginning, or renting a building that is used for elderly people’s facilities, offices, stores, etc. for residential use. It is a house that looks fine on the outside. But how did you know it was a violating building? In the lease agreement, the detailed address must be accurately written down to the number, but when I took a copy of the register, the address my friend signed for was an address that did not exist. I found out that way, and there was nothing special about it. Because all the houses around it were that way, my friend didn’t have the option of choosing a better living environment. A studio with less than 3 pyeong even if the room is split. There, my friend lives a life where he can only do one thing at a time. If you want to sleep, you open the blanket, if you want to eat rice, you fold the blanket, and if you want to hang the laundry, open the drying rack and sleep. Even that, the mold is severe, and in the humid summer months, you cannot eat properly or sleep properly in a room filled with the smell of mold. Internet community posts about living in a semi-basement and being diagnosed with asthma often remind me of a friend’s home from last summer, when mold grew on wallpaper, floor coverings, wardrobes, beds, and even clothes and blankets. In the first place, the house itself is not ventilated, and the bulletin board related to the terrible fungus that cannot be solved by anything due to severe leaks is actually clichéd. I have a friend around me who opens the door every day with a bokbulbok because the house is tilted and the door doesn’t open properly. Under the notoriety of being a’new room village,’ a college town studio is a’poverty business’ in a residential space where young people cannot live a proper life. Even if the government cracks down on violating buildings, there is no mechanism to protect tenants living in violating buildings. I’m in the midst of being cheated The case of a landlord who renovated a house registered as a Gosiwon and operated it as a studio, and then removed the sink in the house where a young tenant lives in order to avoid the ward office’s crackdown. This is why measures to protect tenants’ rights are essential when enforcement of violating buildings crackdown. In addition, it is necessary to increase purchased rental housing or expand policies to directly support housing expenses so that tenants can live in a home-like house with affordable housing expenses.
Residents opposing youth rental… I am a young citizen
Will my situation be a little better? I’m dreaming of moving into a youth housing that will soon enter the neighborhood where I live on a cheonsei basis. If I move into a youth house, I am excited about the possibility of starting a new home in a clean building and even saving rent. However, shortly afterwards, I heard the news that the construction of youth housing could be destroyed due to opposition from the residents. Whenever I walked through a site that was decided as a site for youth housing, I saw a banner that was written against by local residents. ‘Traffic congestion’,’class overcrowding’, etc. It was hard for me to convince myself if this could be the reason for opposing youth housing, but I hoped that the Seoul Metropolitan Government would respond properly. Even the head of the local government opposed the decision to build a rental house, and I realized that I was truly a ‘mature person.’ Is the decision to build a public rental home so easily broken? Wasn’t it a public policy anyway? I am a resident, and I am a citizen. I have to move home every two years, but I am a person who has affection for my neighborhood and wants to live here. However, whenever I am discriminated against because I am a tenant, because I am a young man, I feel depressed about where I can live. My worries do not end here. I managed to escape from the violating building by making a monthly rent deposit because it was’forever’, but will I still be able to get my deposit back properly, whether it would make my relationship with the landlord uncomfortable if I offered to receive a monthly rent deduction? If the family says they want to live, they have to move, but can this month’s rent contract be safely extended? . Even today, I can’t fall asleep easily due to numerous worries. There are so many homes in Seoul, but where is the home where I left my body?
Mayor candidates devoted to speculation and development… Are there any measures for tenants?
However, there is currently no policy for young tenants in the policies of the candidates for the mayor of Seoul. You are a young citizen living as a tenant, and the right to live is a human right. Young tenants want a housing policy that protects their valuable lives, such as increased direct housing support and guaranteed rental periods. If you don’t have to own a house to secure your housing, but if you can rent a house and live in a comfortable environment with adequate housing expenses, many housing problems that young people are facing now will be solved. Now, not speculation and development, please consider how to ensure the stability of housing for members of society. Young tenants looking forward to tenant measures