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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->TOKYO: - Japan's government will offer affordable, temporary lodging to workers who have lost their jobs because of the deepening recession, Japanese media reported yesterday.
Several government ministries have announced in recent days that they will temporarily lease out apartments reserved for civil servants to the jobless.
The Finance Ministry, for instance, said on Friday it will open up 775 such apartments to the unemployed, said the Japan Times, citing the official Kyodo news agency.
The vacant units, which made up a small portion of some 88,000 apartments maintained by the ministry across the country, were used to house public servants dispatched to regional agencies and bureaus.
The apartments - which will be available for up to a year - will be provided through the local authorities, which will set the conditions for the tenants, said the report.
While such units were sometimes made available to disaster victims, this is the first time they have been offered to the unemployed, said officials. The monthly rent will range from 4,000 yen to 48,000 yen (S$64 to S$767).
The Finance Ministry has called on other government departments - which together manage some 137,000 apartments reserved for their employees - to follow suit.
On the same day, the Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry announced that the government will freeze a plan to scrap its decrepit housing facilities. Instead, some 31,000 units will be renovated and made available to the unemployed from next month until March 2011, said the Japan Times.
Last Wednesday, the infrastructure ministry also unveiled plans to provide 23,000 units managed by the government-linked housing agency to the jobless at discounted rental rates. Some local authorities have joined in the effort. In one novel solution, the small city of Kitsuki in southern Japan has offered cabins at campsites to contract workers axed locally by a subsidiary of office equipment and camera maker Canon.
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->TOKYO: - Japan's government will offer affordable, temporary lodging to workers who have lost their jobs because of the deepening recession, Japanese media reported yesterday.
Several government ministries have announced in recent days that they will temporarily lease out apartments reserved for civil servants to the jobless.
The Finance Ministry, for instance, said on Friday it will open up 775 such apartments to the unemployed, said the Japan Times, citing the official Kyodo news agency.
The vacant units, which made up a small portion of some 88,000 apartments maintained by the ministry across the country, were used to house public servants dispatched to regional agencies and bureaus.
The apartments - which will be available for up to a year - will be provided through the local authorities, which will set the conditions for the tenants, said the report.
While such units were sometimes made available to disaster victims, this is the first time they have been offered to the unemployed, said officials. The monthly rent will range from 4,000 yen to 48,000 yen (S$64 to S$767).
The Finance Ministry has called on other government departments - which together manage some 137,000 apartments reserved for their employees - to follow suit.
On the same day, the Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry announced that the government will freeze a plan to scrap its decrepit housing facilities. Instead, some 31,000 units will be renovated and made available to the unemployed from next month until March 2011, said the Japan Times.
Last Wednesday, the infrastructure ministry also unveiled plans to provide 23,000 units managed by the government-linked housing agency to the jobless at discounted rental rates. Some local authorities have joined in the effort. In one novel solution, the small city of Kitsuki in southern Japan has offered cabins at campsites to contract workers axed locally by a subsidiary of office equipment and camera maker Canon.
[email protected]
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