2008 Volume 73 Issue 629 Pages 1579-1584
This paper aims to examine housing support for dwelling distress household such as elderly persons, disable people, foreigners etc. Housing support for them to occupy private rental housing is necessary because they tend to be refused contracts and occupancies of rental housing by owners. To grasp the general condition of housing support, the nationwide questionnaire survey for housing department of 849 local governments was conducted, 691 answers about support policies of local government and support activities of non profit organizations were collected. From analysis of these answers, some characteristics are observed: 1) refusals of dwelling distress household become obvious on major metropolitan areas and housing support policies are provided by local governments of these areas; 2) non profit organizations enforce support activities directly and inclusively for many kinds of dwelling distress household; 3) policies by local governments and activities by non profit organizations are complementary to each other and some cooperative relationships are observed.
