A Study on the Residents’ Perception for Conflict Management of Social Mix-Housing Complex in Seoul

Does spatial configuration matter in residents’ conflicts in public housing complexes? Evidence from mixed tenure housings in South Korea

“…Given those conflict issues among residents living in public housing or mixed-tenure apartment complexes in South Korea, extensive literature demonstrated the issues and challenges of public housing (Ha 2002 strategies for socially sustainable public housing developments (Ha 2008), and tested empirically the relationship between social mix policy and social outcomes, such as social conflict (Oh and Nam et al 2016;Oh and Lee 2013;Lee 2012), residential satisfaction (Jun and Jeong 2018), and social capital (Yang et al 2018). More focusing on social conflict in mixed-tenure housings, various studies highlighted the disparities in rule enforcement as one of main sources of resident's conflict as well as social stigma (Oh and Nam et al 2016;Oh and Lee 2013;Keller 2011;McCormick, Joseph, and Chaskin et al 2012). For example, even though both public rental housing and private sale housing are located in the same apartment complexes, the opinions from public housing residents are often ignored in the process of decision making due to either the lack of rule enforcement or the absence of organization as a representative of public housing residents.…”