A Discussion on Affordable Housing Projects; Case Study Mehr Housing, Iran

Abstract

Housing is one of the basic needs for humans. Families in different countries with various cultures, who have different life styles respond to their individual needs including physical and mental in a safe place that is called house. The world population is increasing day by day. In parallel to this population growth, housing demand increases rapidly. Thus, different countries try to meet the needs of housing by creating multifarious housing policies. Generally, these policies have been developed according to countries' special conditions and the developments in the world. Iran is also a country, which has a rapid population growth and has developed series of policies to solve 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. In this study, it is intended to make an evaluation about the strengthens and weaknesses of Mehr Housing projects in Iran in terms of housing quality. In order to evaluate the architectural quality of Mehr Housing projects in Sarvestan,

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“…These number of units will cover six million population of the country, which is approximately 12% of urban population. Ministry of housing, Housing Foundation, Ministry of Cooperatives, Central Bank, Municipalities and Central insurance collaborated altogether to construct Mehr Housing Projects [3].…”

“…This project main aims are to bring equality in between supply and demand of housing by omitting the land price, housing for low-income people and poor people, control and prevent the skyrocketing the prices of lands and housing, housing boost production and increase production volumes of housing and reducing the cost of housing (Rent, mortgage and buy). Also, it is aimed to give solution for the future housing needs, justice in access to quality affordable housing [3].…”

“…Generally, In Mehr housing projects there is a semi open balcony for each unit. In parallel to the religion of this country, generally families have more privacy and they are not using these semi open spaces as a socializing area [3].…”

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