| Abstract | This study is focused on facilitating the government to work out a more successful low-income housing policy by supplying the housing preference of the houseless households who are the future target group of the government low-income housing policy.
Guidelines and implications of the apartment housing are given, inferred by the evaluation of the impact of the low-income apartment housing in Seoul, Korea. In this study, housing is presented as a system consisting of four subsystems, which in turn are composed of relevant subcomponents.
It describes the existing housing conditions and the housing preference for each housing component, identifies the key housing preference patterns in
housing choice and installation choice and main variables affecting them, and evaluates the impact of the low-income apartment housing on the basis
of level of satisfaction and attitudes of the occupants and non-occupants. Housing preference was described by simple statistics. In finding
out the main preference patterns, quantification method III developed by C. Hayashi, which is a factor analytical method, was employed.
For extracting the key variables influencing the preference patterns, quantification method I was applied, which was also developed by C. Hayasi.
The modal preference patterns which were found are location-oriented preference,
convenience-oriented preference and general-housing-condition oriented preference in the housing choice, and financial-oriented preference, space
oriented preference and general-facility-oriented preference in house installation choice.
The key variables affecting the location-oriented preference were number of family members and key money; convenience
oriented preference, number of rooms; and financial-oriented preference, level of education and monthly saving. In evaluating the impact of the low-income apartment housing, four areas, level of satisfaction with each housing component, habitability at the housing system level, moving motivation and attitudes towards the
housing were analyzed. In computing the level of satisfaction with each housing component, the expressed satisfaction level on a 5 point scale was weighted and averaged. To obtain the habitability, the level of satisfaction with each component was integrated at the housing system level. To
analyse the moving motivation, levels of satisfaction at the housing system level were compared between the occupants planning to move and the occupants not planning to move. The attitudes towards the apartment housing were
obtained through the opinions about the advantages and disadvantages of the
housing and intention.
According to the average level of satisfaction with the component, it was found that the main sources of dissatisfaction
were space-related components such as storage space, bathroom, size, etc. and accessibility-related components such as distance from the city centre and the job place.
The habitability of the low income apartment housing
was found to be in middle level.
The result of analysis of moving motivation showed that more than half planned to move out; they moved in because of their personal situation but they planned to move out because of the
apartment, namely, too small; and generally the more dissatisfied people
were, the more they wanted to move out.
Through the attitudes towards the apartment housing, the occupants
and non-occupants were identified to have almost the same opinions about
the advantages and disadvantages.
The houseless household as non
occupants accepted the apartment housing as a temporary and transitional
dwelling means, but the occupants thought the single detached house was
better to live in. |
