The government has continued supply of public rental housing since the rental housing fostering plan was announced in 1982. In recent years, the characteristics of housing demand on rental housing have diversified considerably so that the government is now reviewing a flexible way to supply rental housing in consideration of the characteristic of the rent housing demand, which is different from existing uniform move-in criteria set by the supply system providing rent housing.
This study aimed to provide foundational data for a variety of rent housing types in consideration of the demand on public rental housing thereby analyzing the residence periods per residence characteristic based on the move-in/out data in the National Rental Housing supplied to Seoul City. This study analyzed 2,226 tenants that moved out for the last eight years from 15,000 national rental housing in Seoul managed by the Seoul Housing (SH) Corporation. The analysis results are as follows: first, an average residence period of moved-out households from the national rental housing in Seoul was about 33 months. Second, the larger the size of the house was, the shorter the average residency period was. Third, the average residency period was similar regardless of the residency characteristics (gender, age, and supply type). Fourth, the analysis result on the residency period based on the move-out reason showed that most (85%) of the move-out were voluntary initiated by the tenant request followed by failure by income and eligibility test, and others.
This study analyzed residency periods of moved-out households from the national rental housing empirically in order to determine an appropriate rental period to develop the tailored rental house types in consideration of the rental demand characteristics.