In order to attract younger generations to the aging housing complex and revitalize it, Chiba City is working to subsidize up to 300,000 yen as housing expenses when newlywed couples in their 30s move into the housing complex in the city. , I will start from next month.
According to Chiba City, there are 24 large-scale housing estates in the city that are about 40 years old, but the aging rate of the inhabitants is 36%, which is about 10 points higher than the entire city, and 50 of them. It means that there are places where it exceeds%.
For this reason, the city has come to subsidize up to 300,000 yen as housing expenses and moving expenses when newly married couples under the age of 39 move in to attract younger generations to 24 housing complexes and revitalize them. I will start from the moon.
This applies to newly-married couples who have been willing to live for more than two years and have filed a marriage registration between January and March next year or are covered by the city's partnership system.
Tsuneaki Hamada, director of the Chiba City Building Department, said, "I am afraid that if the aging of the population continues, it will not be possible to maintain the community. I want to connect to it. "
In the background of Chiba City's efforts ...
The reason why Chiba City encourages newly-married couples to move in is the aging of residents and the increase in vacant houses.
In a dilapidated housing complex without a 4-story or 5-story elevator, the number of elderly people struggling to go up and down stairs is increasing, and there is concern that it will be difficult to maintain daily life such as shopping and garbage disposal. about it.
Of these, an 83-year-old man who lives in the Hanamigawa housing complex in Hanamigawa Ward, Chiba City, which was built in 1968, moved to a room on the 4th to 2nd floors five years ago.
The man said, "I moved because it was difficult to go up and down the stairs. I live on the second floor now, but I can only go shopping twice a week."
Kyoko Abe, the secretary general of the Hanamigawa housing complex, said, "I just want young people to live in the housing complex, and if possible, participate in the neighborhood association. City assistance is welcome and a few young households are welcome. But I hope it will increase. "
At the Hanamigawa housing complex, we have been making various efforts to address these issues.
To support the shopping of elderly residents, we have been providing a service to deliver products to homes in the shopping district in the housing complex for 10 years.
In addition, we have been renovating the room since last year in cooperation with a company that handles household goods so that the younger generation can live in it.
The 11 renovated homes were soon borrowed from the younger generation.
At the housing complex, we are also working on the renovation of the shopping district to further encourage young people to move in.
Koji Osawa, Vice President of the Hanamigawa Housing Complex Promotion Association, said, "I want to expand the energy from the shopping district to the entire housing complex by having young people participate in workshops and volunteer shopping support." I did.