사회적 부동산 활성화를 위한 법⋅제도적 지원 방안- 우리나라 사례를 중심으로 -

Abstract

Real estate in South Korea has been blamed as one of the main causes of social disparities such as asset inequality and polarization. Recently, in South Korea, the emerging ‘social real estate’ that community owns and/or uses is considered as an alternative to address those issues. Therefore, this study tries to review the concept and cases of the social real estate that is based on the community ownership, the third ownership beyond public and private ownership, and to suggest legal and institutional support strategies for increasing the social real estate. The social real estate is a new approach in owning, managing, and operating community assets by community, and is expected to directly return social and economic benefits back to the community, and to reinforce the community based on the increased collective power from the various community members. The community ownership is followed by social values such as building sense of place through the common experiences with communication and cooperation between community members, increase of affordable spaces, and positive circle of profits produced by the community. The national and local governments are currently initiated several policy supports, and a variety of cases of the social real estate including social finance sector in South Korea have many implications. For expanding the social real estate cases, more supports of social finance are necessary, and for securing property ownership, we need to legislate a special law to establish tentatively named “‘commons trust”. From a mid- to long-term perspective, diverse policy tools are needed to promote the social real estate.