1920~1930년대 경성부 주택문제의 전개와 대책

Abstract

This study investigated the policies of housing supply in Seoul for urban housing shortage occurred in Seoul during the Japanese colonial period. The housing supply policies of Seoul were embodied by the operation of prefectural housing, construction of official residences and company housing, and creation of the complexes for poor people. Prefectural housing was created nominally for the poor, but in light of the housing shortage of wealthy government officials, its usage was altered into the official residences of Seoul. The residential areas for poor people were one of the policies actually implemented for them, but it was the plan that did not reflect the realistic demand of poor people. Thus, it ended up with expelling them from the center of Seoul and preventing them from being in touch with the urban areas. From then on, Seoul attempted to conduct policy change with the arrangement of stable residences for poor people, by designating poor districts within the urban areas, appeasing and embracing poor people. Such a policy was changed into the policy of housing supply for laborers for ensuring workforce by the strategy of continent logistics bases as the housing shortage became worse under the wartime mobilization system in the late 1930s.