Selected Projects for Safe, Healthy Living in Japan
Overview
Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism selected 8 projects under the Model Project for Improving Housing Environments to Support the 100-Year-Life Era. The selections comprise 4 challenge-setting projects and 4 project-development projects; no proposals were selected under the business-proposer category in this round. The program invites model initiatives by private businesses and others that address changing housing needs at each life stage, to encourage living environments where older people, people with disabilities, families raising children, and others can live safely and healthily. Projects recognized for their leadership after review by an evaluation committee receive support. The selected projects’ proposal names, planned locations, and lead proposers were announced.
Key points
- 8 projects were selected.
- 4 challenge-setting projects and 4 project-development projects were selected.
- No proposals were selected under the business-proposer category.
Overview
The Model Project for Improving Housing Environments to Support the 100-Year-Life Era promotes living environments where everyone, including older people, people with disabilities, and families raising children, can live safely and healthily. It invites private businesses and others to propose model initiatives that respond to housing needs that change with each life stage.
Following review by an evaluation committee of academic experts, the program supports projects recognized for their leadership.
Details
There were 4 challenge-setting projects: “Housing Nurtures Welfare Workers: A Step-Up Housing Model for Inclusion” in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture (Genki Jirushi Co., Ltd., a residential support corporation); “Creating a New Inclusive Lifestyle through Private-Sector Use of a Former School That Served as a Place for Learning and Exchange” in Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture (Nasu Machizukuri Co., Ltd.); “Development of Adaptable Shared Housing to Upcycle Public Housing Complexes” in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture (ZEN Co., Ltd.); and “A Model for Secure Housing for People Requiring Special Consideration through Use of Existing Municipal Housing Stock” in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture (General Incorporated Association Le Trefle).
There were also 4 project-development projects.
The 4 project-development projects were: “Updating Safe Housing through Seikatsu Club and Others upon Return of Leased Public Rental Housing” in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture (Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Co-operative Union, Kanagawa); “Creating a Three-Generation Mutual-Watch Housing Environment in Coordination with Community Development in Mitoyo Nio” in Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture (Yaoyorozu Co., Ltd., trading as Kurashi no Fudosan); “Outreach Model Project for Rebuilding Homes for Disaster Victims” in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture (candidate site; One Family Sendai, a specified nonprofit corporation); and “Creating a Youth Hub to Find a Way of Life That Suits Me in the Land of Renewal, Kumano” in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture (Izumi Co., Ltd.).