This study analyzed minimum standards of housing and housing affordability to compare levels of housing welfare between households with disabled members and without disabled members. The proportion of the households with disabled members which did not...
This study analyzed minimum standards of housing and housing affordability to compare levels of housing welfare between households with disabled members and without disabled members. The proportion of the households with disabled members which did not meet the minimum standards of housing was 47.3%, while the proportion of the households without disabled members was 42.8%. Concerning housing affordability, the proportion of the households with disabled members which spent more than the appropriate housing cost-to-income ratio(30%) was 15.2%, while the proportion of the households without disabled members was 11.1%. In addition, appropriate minimum housing cost-to-income ratios were estimated to consider housing attributes of households by using the hedonic price model. The proportion of the households with disabled members of which the estimated minimum housing cost-to-income ratio was over 30%, was 35.7%. It was 13.0% point higher than that of the households without disabled members, 22.8%. The estimated minimum housing cost-to-income ratios by the hedonic theory were much higher than the real housing cost-to-income ratios. Moreover, the difference between the households with disabled members and without disabled members was bigger with the hedonic theory. It means the housing cost burden of the households with disabled members will become bigger than that of the households without disabled members when the households try to reside in houses which meet each household’s housing attributes and the minimum standards of housing. In conclusion, the levels of housing welfare of the households with disabled members were lower than those of the households without disabled members.