Abstract
Article history: Received May 15, 2013 Received in revised format 25 June 2013 Accepted 7 August 2013 Available online August 7 2013 Housing is one of the most important sections of development in a country and its economic importance has put it in the center of attention. It can cause rise and depression of habitation by its extended economic aspects. Mehr Housing plan is a state run housing project in most cities started 2007 in Iran to protect and provide cheap housing for poor people and young couples. Mehr housing project by its large scale and wide dimensions can affect the society’s economy. Therefore, to investigate weaknesses and strengths of this project in terms of economic and applying necessary reformation can increase the success probability of this project. For this purpose, this study assess the weaknesses and strengths of Mehr housing of province of Khorram Abad in Iran for achieving economic goals and also presents solutions to better access to these goals. Time scope of the present study is 6 months of 2011 and the second 3 months of 2012. The methodology is applicable in terms of goal and is descriptive survey in terms of nature. In this study, a combined method of interviewing to experts and distributing a questionnaire among the applicants of Mehr housing has been used for data collecting. Among strengths of Khorram Abad in economic section, employment and urban landfill pattern reformation can be implied. In addition, among weaknesses of this project are lack of proper first design and technical justification of the project and use of only 2 shabby fabrics. © 2013 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Highlights
One of the primary concerns in modern society is to have stable life with house and shelter
Technical specification of Mehr housing projects in an area of 11500 hectare in 22 provinces were compared to desired urbanization standards, and it was specified that near 55 percent of projects were allocated to non-habitation application and it shows the sufficient attention to the urbanization and urban life standards
If the cost of collapse and destruction in rusty textures is considered equal to the cost of preparation in suburbs, the difference of Mehr housing prices in rusty textures will be reflected in habitation cost (Yeganegi Dastegerdi, 2010)
Summary
One of the primary concerns in modern society is to have stable life with house and shelter. Many young people wish to get married and have joyful family but suffer from shortage of saving to rent or purchase house for their future lives. This has created tremendous crisis in modern society especially in Iran (Varesi, 2009). The relationship of housing with other economic section is considered as a
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