Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon has appointed Kim Heon-dong (66), former head of the Real Estate Construction Reform Headquarters of the Citizens' Coalition for Economic Justice (Gyeongsilyeon), as the president of the Seoul Housing and Urban Corporation (SH) despite the opposition of the city council.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced today (15th) that Kim, former head of the Gyeongsang Training Institute, was appointed as the SH president.
The term of office is 3 years.
After working for Ssangyong E&C, the new president Kim worked as a civic activist in the Gyeongsil-ryun for 20 years from 1999.
He served as the head of the national project monitoring group, the head of the apartment price bubble reduction division, and the head of the real estate construction reform division at the Gyeongsilren, and served as an assistant in the office of the National Assembly member Jeong Dong-young from 2016 to 2017.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government evaluated the new president Kim as “an expert in the field of housing policy who has been seeking practical solutions from the field by making real estate market stabilization and ‘eliminating the bubble in real estate prices’ a lifelong task.
He added, "I expect that the new president, Kim, will successfully lead the housing stability and housing welfare projects of Seoul citizens through his accumulated expertise and problem-solving skills."
However, the city council made a judgment of 'incompetent' after a personnel hearing on the 10th, so it is expected to protest against Mayor Oh's forced appointment.
Regarding the new president, Kim, who was a candidate for the president at the time, the special committee on personnel hearings of the city council said, "Although they insisted on real estate policies such as disclosure of the sale price, post-sale system, and housing for renters, they lacked understanding of the side effects of the policy and could not clearly suggest concrete action plans." judged.
He also stated, "As an expert, my beliefs and beliefs are being questioned. I continued to assert the biased and unprofessional view that house prices rose due to the government's incompetence without taking into account internal and external economic conditions without any filtering." .
In the end, as the new president Kim takes office as Mayor Oh will, the city's public housing policy is also expected to accelerate.
President Kim announced his plan to expand the supply of rental housing units, called 'half-price apartments', in order to stabilize house prices at the city council's personnel hearings.
Regarding the rental housing policy, he also evaluated that "Mayor Oh Se-hoon's policy of building public housing by building good apartments such as long-term jeonse is a better policy than (former Mayor Park Won-soon's) policy that focused on multi-family and multi-family purchases." direction has been strengthened.
(Photo = provided by Seoul City Council, Yonhap News)