The purpose of this study was to identify perception on housing welfare of social welfare practitioners. Specific
research interest was focused on the area of housing welfare services and necessity, problems when execute housing
welfare services, and activating strategy of housing welfare. For the research purpose, questionnaires were distributed to
537 people who work in the field of social welfare including social welfare officials in local government authorities and
social workers at community welfare centers nationwide by mail and e-mail and 405 questionnaires were analyzed using
SPSS 15.0 program. Respondents thought that the supply of public rental housing was the most important service to
promote housing welfare. They also indicated the most serious problem was the lack of budget and housing welfare
services and programs. As main reasons of local government’s passive attitude toward housing welfare services and
programs, respondents mentioned low interest level of housing welfare and lack of housing welfare education. Most of
the respondents agreed the necessity of introducing the curricula related to housing welfare and expected to spread
interest toward housing welfare in the field of social welfare.