Gyeonggi-do Provides Wallpapering and Heating/Cooling Units to Child Household 280 Filled with Mold and Pests

Gyeonggi Province will carry out a cleaning service support project, including wallpapering, for 280 child households exposed to vulnerable housing environments.

Gyeonggi Province is set to actively launch a housing environment improvement project for households with children living in poor housing conditions such as semi-basements and rooftop rooms.

On the 12th, the province announced that starting from the 13th, it will begin the "Child Housing Poverty Household Clean Service Support Project," which provides mold and pest removal, wallpapering, and heating and cooling appliances to households with children suffering from damage caused by mold and pests or difficulties due to the cold in winter and heat in summer.

To significantly expand the scale of this project this year, the province participated in the 2023 "Lottery Fund Support Project" contest hosted by the Ministry of Economy and Finance and secured a total budget of 840 million KRW.

Through this, the province will expand the support scale from 48 households in 4 cities/counties in last year's pilot project to 280 households across all 31 cities/counties in the province this year.

The support targets are households with children under 18 years old living in semi-basements, rooftop rooms, or houses below the minimum housing standard area.

The area standard is 43㎡ or less for a family of four, but there is no area standard for those living in semi-basements or rooftop floors. The income standard is 100% or less of the median income, or recipients of basic livelihood benefits such as livelihood or housing benefits.

Households meeting these criteria can apply by submitting an application form to the relevant city/county department or local housing welfare center by the end of April. Final selected candidates will be contacted individually in May.

Selected households will receive home appliances worth about 2 million KRW, such as heating and cooling devices and air purifiers, and cleaning services including wallpaper and flooring replacement worth about 1 million KRW to improve their living environment, starting as early as June.

Kim Tae-cheol, head of the province’s Housing Welfare Team, emphasized, "Children living in vulnerable housing environments are known to have a higher probability of contracting diseases. Through this project, we hope that children, who are the future of the province, can live in better environments. We will continue to work diligently on housing welfare projects to ensure no blind spots in housing welfare occur."