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Case Study Mehr Housing, Iran Journal Of Contemporary Urban Affairs 2018, Volume 2, Number 3, pages 137– 145 A Discussion on Affordable Housing Projects; Case Study Mehr Housing, Iran * Ph.D. Candidate MARYAM GHASEMI 1, Dr. NAZIFE ÖZAY 2 1, 2 Department of Architecture, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, via Mersin 10, Turkey 1 2 E mail: [email protected] , E mail: [email protected] A B S T R A C T A R T I C L E I N F O: Article history: Housing is one of the basic needs for humans. Families in different countries Received 15 July 2018 with various cultures, who have different life styles respond to their individual Accepted 23 September 2018 Available online 13 October needs including physical and mental in a safe place that is called house. The 2018 world population is increasing day by day. In parallel to this population growth, housing demand increases rapidly. Thus, different countries try to Keywords: meet the needs of housing by creating multifarious housing policies. Affordable Housing, Generally, these policies have been developed according to countries’ special Low-income, Iran, conditions and the developments in the world. Iran is also a country, which Mehr Housing, has a rapid population growth and has developed series of policies to solve Architectural Quality. the housing problems. Affordable housing is one of solution for providing the house by governments. These type of houses is the ways to answer the demand for low-income people or the people that their income is not sufficient to owner a house. Since 2007, government has built new type of affordable housing in different cities of Iran. These houses are named as Mehr Housing, which are generally medium and high-rise buildings for low-income people. This work is licensed under a In this study, it is intended to make an evaluation about the strengthens and Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs 4.0. weaknesses of Mehr Housing projects in Iran in terms of housing quality. In "CC-BY-NC-ND" order to evaluate the architectural quality of Mehr Housing projects in Sarvestan, Abadeh, Nourabad, Firoozabad, Hashtgerd, Zahedan, Tabriz, Hadishahr, Marand, Zanjan, Yazd and Natanz physical analysis method is used as well as literature review. These analyses are mainly done based on location and accessibility, safety and security, public open spaces and recreational activities, plan layout of housing units and physical features. By this discussion, it is expected to create a guidance for the policy makers, designers, users and other shareholders. Journal Of CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2018), 2(3), 137-145. https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2018.4728 www.ijcua.com Copyright © 2018 Journal Of Contemporary Urban Affairs. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction the psychological and social needs of users From the ancient time till now, one of the most (Evans, 2003). Due to increasing population of important needs of human after the food is *Corresponding Author: shelter. Dwelling could protect people from Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Eastern cold and hot weather, risk of animals and in Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus other words a safe place for resting and E-mail address: [email protected] comfort (Weihe, 1990). Besides, housing meets JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS, 2(3), 137-145 / 2018 the cities and suburban areas after the countries which is the result of use of poor Industrial Revolution, the housing become one materials in construction, insufficient access to of the most important and essential problem of electricity, water and sewage systems (Okpala, people (Aldrich, 1995). 1992). Most of these countries face by the The most important factors, which help to solve housing illegal production. Sometimes this lack of housing is supplying the land, attention figure reaches 50 to 75 percent of urban to the construction material and powerful housing units (Azizi, 2004). One of the countries management (Mazloom Khorasani, 2011). which is faced the housing problem in recent Housing problem exists in every country. decades is Iran. This problem happened However, it is more serious in third world especially after the land reform in 1962 and countries related to political, economic, social after the changes in production methods with and cultural factors (Pour Mohammadi, 2014). the growing trend of urbanization (Hesamian, From the other point of view since the adoption 2004). of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in With the revolution in Iran in 1979, there is no 1948, “the right to adequate housing” was any control on the spread of the cities. Housing introduced as an important component of in the suburbs gets much more flourished and “good living standards” (Assembly, 1984). Thus, the tenants that renting the house had much each government imposed special rules and more problem with the rent price. The regulations in field of housing (Schill, 2005). They immigrant from the rural part get settled in the take action to establish ministries of housing in suburb areas (Sharifinia, 2012). In that period order to allocate funds and policy formulation, house is constructing for personal use not for regulation, programs and special projects in giving to rent. After the Islamic revolution in the housing sector (Hulchanski, 2002). terms of quantity the construction of the houses As a developing country, Iran also has special increased but the amount of investment effort on housing problem. The first attempt in decrease. Because the size of the houses got this way is creation of the Ministry of Prosperity smaller. With the imposed war the building in (1964). After that, the Department of Housing activities decrease and investment get lower and Urban Development was established in than before in the years 1982 and1983 (Ahari, 1974 (Rasoolimanesh, 2013). Furthermore, 1996). There are five programs which were according to the agenda of Second developed after the revolution that in first Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat 2) program the goals are related to the changing United Nations Ally, which was organised in the composition construction practices to Turkey in 1996. Islamic Republic of Iran as a reach the durable buildings, promotion of member accepted some commitments. These housing inventory per capita in the country can be summarized as regarding the right to and directing the production of better quality adequate housing, enabling all people have housing with less infrastructure. The goal of access to appropriate shelter. The other factor second program is clean policy that is in this agenda is to provide legal security for consisting of saving, mass construction and land ownership, mobilizing financial resources miniaturization (Ghanbari, 2010). The goal of and credit and other sources of private and third programme are reducing the average government sectors for social development floor area of housing and reduce destruction of access to efficient technologies and effective dwellings. The goal of fourth program are practices (Nastaran, 2010). The right of housing balance to adequate housing among groups in the constitution stated clearly in Iran. and regions of the country, provide housing for According to 31th of the constitution of the low-income households, provide housing for Islamic Republic of Iran, it is the right of every youth and female headed households and person and household in Iran to have a house. industrialization of the houses construction. The Government is responsible for those, whose goal of fifth program are housing for low- need according to priority. Workers and income people, safe and durable housing, villagers are the first ones that can benefit from market regulation and coordination between the implementation of the realization of this housing policies and land use planning and principle (Saremi, 2012). development in policies and reducing regional In socialist countries, despite they produced disparities (URL1). too many houses but based on increasing Provide housing in recent decades, have been housing demand, they still have lack in housing. one of the most important problems of various On the other hand, qualitative indicators in the segments, especially for low-income families. houses are not suitable (Pugh, 2001). Population growth and increasing tendency to Housing in developing countries also has urbanization and migration from villages to problems. The fundamental issues of these cities after the revolution in Iran, use of less Maryam Ghasemi, Nazife Özay 138 JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS, 2(3), 137-145 / 2018 durable materials, the entrance of young age quo. It is also key predictor of success of private of applicants to mortgage market and and public constructors. Finally, it has affect on optimum combination of investment and housing demand and neighbourhood change regional disparities shows housing problem (Djebuarni & Al-Abed, 2000). more acute than ever (Rezaie, 2015). Due to The study related to the satisfaction done by the conditions, which is mentioned above, A.M.M. Liu in 1999. It was related to the Post caused to raising affordable houses as a occupancy evaluation in satisfaction. The solution for this country in the second and third paper study the social and physical factors economic development plan which is related that influence the satisfaction in housing estate, to the social and cultural rights. Mehr housing is Hong Kong. The comparison between the an affordable type of house which is belong to private and public housing dissatisfaction were the fourth development plan (Saeedi, 2011). done about the housing occupants. Base oN this argument, is to analyse Mehr Abedini (2013) study which is titled as “Assess housing projects in terms of safety and security, public housing policies in relation to afford location and accessibility, plan layout of urban low-income households in Iran (Urmia housing units and physical features, public city), is analysed the Mehr housing in relation to open spaces and recreational activities. Finally, the afford of low- income families in the Urmia a discuss is done on the weakness and city.
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