Abstract
In recent years, rent defaulters are increasing in public housing. The aim of this study is to examine the state of back rent problems in public housing by means of the research of the characteristics of rent defaulters. As a result, I can say more than half of rent defaulters are tenants for whom it is difficult to pay rents on account of low income, debts and illness, and that an amount in arrears of low income rent defaulters is very large. The lowincome tenants who have failed to pay rents for a long term have little ability to pay back their back rents, and tend to be asked to quit the houses.
