The government will designate urban public housing complex zones with 2,148 dwellings in areas including Jungnang and Dobong districts to expand the supply of dwellings in central Seoul.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on the 31st designated three locations totaling 2,148 dwellings as urban public housing complex zones: near Sangbong Station in Jungnang District, Seoul (781 dwellings), near Yongmasan Station (783 dwellings), and near the Chang 2-dong community center in Dobong District (584 dwellings).
The urban public housing complex project is a program to quickly supply dwellings by having the public sector lead redevelopment of aging urban areas where private-sector renewal is difficult, granting benefits such as higher floor area ratios to expand the supply of highly sought-after dwellings in central cities.
The complex zones designated this time completed the zone designation process by securing the consent of at least two-thirds of residents (covering at least one-half of the land area) after preliminary designation, and by undergoing reviews by the Central Urban Planning Committee and the Central Land Expropriation Committee. Following integrated reviews, the complex project plans are set to be approved in 2027, with construction to begin in 2030.
With this designation of complex zones, designation has been completed for 26 out of a total of 49 urban complex project sites, totaling 41,000 dwellings.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) is actively pursuing follow-up measures, including legal revisions, to improve the urban complex project system released in the Sept. 7 plan to expand the supply of dwellings. Through revision of the Special Act on Public Housing, it will add special provisions such as easing building height limits, and will expand the scope of integrated reviews to include environmental impact assessments and fire performance design to speed up the process.
In addition, through revision of the enforcement decree within the year, the special provision that relaxes the legal cap on floor area ratios to 1.4 times the current limit—now applied only in quasi-residential zones—will be expanded to all residential zones.
Kim Bae-seong, head of the public housing promotion team at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT), said, "To ensure residents can quickly feel the results of the expansion of dwelling supply, we will strengthen efforts to gather resident opinions and actively cooperate with local governments and operators to support the procedures for approving complex project plans," adding, "To steadily move forward with groundbreaking for 50,000 dwellings by 2030, we plan to push for designation of complex zones totaling more than 48,000 dwellings by the end of this year through additional complex zone designations beyond those designated this time."