An Exploratory Study on Role of Community in Supply System of Housing Welfare Service

ABSTRACT The paradigm of the housing policy has been transformed from housing supply to housing welfare, from the policy of housing quantity expansion to the policy of customized housing welfare. The Housing Act was newly enacted to realize the new paradigm of the housing policy. The Act establishes the role of the Housing Welfare Centers in the housing welfare delivery system, but they have some difficulties in doing their role because of limited amount of centers and their manpower. The desirable and efficient model of housing welfare delivery system, therefore, is that the demand of housing welfare is discovered on local base, and that demanders can be provided housing welfare service connected to local governments or neighborhood housing welfare centers. To do so local communities should be established and activated, and the needs of housing welfare service also be discovered. This study is a exploratory one on communities’ role in housing welfare delivery system in spite of some limitations based on existing theories and studies, and is significant as a new trial.Key words : Housing Welfare, Supply System, Community, Paradigm, Local Base, Opinion Leader, Coordinator