Abstract

Purpose: This study aims to redefine the housing welfare beneficiaries by considering the diversity and particularity in Seoul, and to propose the improved direction of Seoul's housing welfare policy without blind spots. A survey method subject to experts was conducted. The survey questionnaire included expanded meaning of the housing-vulnerable people, the necessity levels and effective ways of each housing welfare policy, and the practical needs for a housing welfare program. Results Results from the survey for experts are as follows; first, expanded definition for the housing-vulnerable people was highly demanded. In detail, at-risk adolescents (teenage parents, young care givers, reclusive youth), marginalized persons from a welfare facility (those discharged from residential welfare facilities for the elderly, medical facilities), marriage immigrants, and foreign irregular workers should be included to the housing-vulnerable people. Second, the most necessary policy for housing welfare was the housing welfare programs followed by housing improvement, housing expense support, and public rental housing supply. Third, the most demanded need for detailed policies for each housing welfare field was the housing welfare delivery system. Then the support for housing upward mobility was next followed by expansion of housing welfare governance, housing improvement of old and defective houses, housing improvement within households, employment of housing welfare professionals, housing service programs, and demand-tailored policies for rental housing. Fourth, the suggested direction of each housing welfare policy in Seoul were that the current public rental housing policy should be maintained, financial and housing expense support should be expanded, housing improvement should be expanded or maintained, and housing welfare service programs should be expanded.