Survey on the User Satisfaction with the Mass Housing Projects Led by District Municipality: Konya-Karatay Example

Abstract

Mass housing played an important role in changing the face of the cities. The Municipality Law No.5393 which gave the right to municipalities to build mass housing were factors that have accelerated the mass housing production. The main goal of local administrations is to build houses in the most rapid and economic way for group of people with low income. However, such production has posed problems in terms of quantity and quality. This research has been conducted to measure the satisfaction levels of users from mass housing projects which are implemented under the leadership of the municipality in Konya. The existing residences in the area selected for the project were demolished swiftly and then mass housing was again built swiftly. Determining how the users in the region are affected by this change and their satisfaction with this matter is one of the main goals of this study. A scale was created by scanning the housing satisfaction parameters in the literature for the purpose of this study. In order to find out the satisfaction with the physical space, 5 mass housing areas, which share similarity in terms of settlement texture density and housing typology, were selected as sample study area from the 22 projects built by the district municipality. In the satisfaction and space analysis, user satisfaction in the mass housing projects produced by the municipality was examined together with the demographic findings. This research will serve as a baseline for future research since it will provide ready and comparable data.