Heavy rain "state collapse" House considers subsidies for dismantling costs Koizumi Environment Minister July 17 15:45

At a meeting of the houses damaged by the series of torrential rains, Koizumi announced at a conference that the country has begun to consider subsidizing costs for not only complete destruction but also partial destruction.

As a general rule, if the damaged house is judged to be "totally destroyed", the government will subsidize the demolition cost. The request was made to support us."

Minister Koizumi said in an interview, "There are many damaged houses that are hard to live in because they are areas with many wooden houses. It is not allowed not to support them because they are half destroyed." Revealed that they have started to consider to help.

According to the Ministry of the Environment, the target of consideration is that the contents of support will be summarized by the end of this month for the semi-destroyed houses of all the local governments affected by this heavy rain disaster.

In addition, the Ministry of the Environment will proceed with the disposal of disaster waste collected in temporary storage areas in various locations in coordination with the affected local governments.