Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon stressed on the 8th, "A Seoul with homes, the first puzzle piece is Gangbuk."
Oh said on his Facebook that day, "What I find most regrettable is the Gangbuk area, where the clock of long-delayed housing renewal projects has stopped," adding, "If we had paid more active attention and worked harder, the speed and results of Gangbuk's development would have been different. Many politicians who won the choices of Gangbuk voters must reflect deeply."
He added, "Until I returned to City Hall, 105 out of a total of 319 redevelopment promotion business sites across Seoul were lifted, and 59 of those were in Gangbuk," noting it was "an important backdrop for why Seoul had to endure a harsh supply drought."
In addition, Oh said, "Many people sent words of support for the plan announced by the Seoul city government last week to break ground on 310,000 homes," adding, "There is another plan that received as much support as the 310,000-home groundbreaking plan. It is the plan to supply 4,000 units in the Mia 2 redevelopment promotion zone in Gangbuk District."
Earlier, the Seoul city government raised the baseline floor area ratio for the Mia 2 redevelopment promotion zone from 20% to as high as 30% and expanded the legal cap to 1.2 times. It is aiming to break ground on 4,003 homes in the first half of 2030.
Oh emphasized, "Gangbuk's change is not simply a supply of dwellings," adding, "It is the emergence of a large housing complex on the scale of a mini new town, and the first signal flare to lead Gangbuk's heyday."
He added, "A Seoul with homes is not an impossible future," noting, "Through the rapid integrated planning, we are rekindling the spark toward this future. Gangbuk will change first, and Seoul will change."