The primary purpose of the present study is to assess the impact of housing policy on the condition and quality of housing of 40 cities in Korea. Different levels of quantity of housing among different cities are evaluated in comparative perspectives....
The primary purpose of the present study is to assess the impact of housing policy on the condition and quality of housing of 40 cities in Korea. Different levels of quantity of housing among different cities are evaluated in comparative perspectives. Special emphasis is placed on the quality of supplemental facilities and the overall consumtion patterns.
Significant differences among 40 cities are detected from the present analysis espacially in terms of the number of substandard housing, delapidated housing. housing with central heating. housing with flush toilet, and ect. On the other hand, factors like homeownership rate, per capita floor space, and the size of housing are not substantially different among cities. Another words, there is a significant difference among cities in terms of the quality of housing but not very much disparity in terms of the quantity of housing. Another interesting finding is that the metropolitan area, a newtown, and satellite cities are better in overall structural conditions of housing but worse in housing consumption patterns such as the density and overcrowdedness, compared to small and medium size cities. It has strong policy implication that the nature of housing problem is defferent among cities at different location and in defferent sizes. It is obvious from the analysis that a lot more attention have been placed on housing policies in metropolitan area and a newtown compared to small and medium size cities. One of the objectives of the present study is to examine the basic premise of housing policy which secures the provision of the minimum housing welfare to all the people of the country. In order to accomplish this objective, a spatially as well as socioeconomically defferentiated housing policy should be developed. Different strategies and implementation criteria should be applied to housing problems pertinent to different cities.