In suburb housing estate which has been developed during the high growth of economy period, expectation to close-residential relationship between the parents and child households shows an expanse. Such areas are mostly located in where traffic is inconvenient and have many problems such as building deterioration and increasing of advanced age household and unoccupied house. Therefore close-residential relationship advances to the institutionalization as one method of the young household invitation to suburbs area. In recent years support and promotion movement by local governments can also be seen.
Because of longevity of the elderly person, two-income couple, and changes of family members, the differences appear in close-residential relationship between past and present. Based on a past study about how close-residential relationship plays a constant role by reducing the risk of daily life for the elderly households and child care support for raising child households, this study focus on substance grasp of close-residential relationship such as how they started to live in such relation and how the relation effect.
The object is suburb housing estate located in Asahi-Ku, Yokohama-City which has developed from 1968. The questionary survey was carried out on the purpose of grasping the residence actual situation and residence intention. The map of the area was enclosed with the survey for checking where their family in near live or where they go out in daily life. To those who are in close-residential relationship, requested the hearing survey about how they and their close-residential household moved in and details of going-out activity. Adding the distance and geographical condition to data how daily going-out activity related with close-residential households can help understand specific situation of life in more comprehensive area and extract the problem.
The following information was revealed about the
(1)The present conditions for close-residential relationship
The need of close-residential relationship in raising child households is potentially high. About 60% replies that they want to do live together or live close to parents household. It can be tell that the close-residential needs exists sequentially in future
(2)Process of close-residential relationship
The most reason is carried out by each other’s support need. It is often showed that the dwelling unit which parents household secured extra was replaced by as a house of child household. For the raising child household in lack of spare, it can be considered as substantial economical support from the parents household.
(3)Characteristic of close-residential relationship: physical distance
The distance between the households is concentrated in the walk distance zone within the range of 200m for less than 20 minutes, and the case within the range of 50m such as the same building and the next building is frequent also. However there is a case which moved to the next building after lived in the same building.
(4)Characteristic of close-residential relationship: distance in living
Visiting each other's house to support when needed has showed in going-out activity. It tends to deviate in particular from the child household to the parents household. Without supporting purpose going out with each other can be barely seen, and it refers that close-residential relationship is not related with going-out activity
(5)A purpose and burden of close-residential relationship
Close-residential relationship became a convincing support provider as both to child householder and parents householder. However, the possibility to rather burden when both households have no spare physically or in time but needed support was pointed out.
