Abstract
The Public Housing Law was enacted as a system in 1951. Since then almost 1700000 public housing units have been constructed and it continues playing an important role in the public housing policies. The first purpose of this paper is to analyze positively, what role, to what stratum and to what extent, public housing have been playing in housing conditions in Japan. The second one is to clarify the differencies of the role of public housing in different areas, namely, local characteristics. The conclusions on the occupation of household heads are as follows, 1. The occupation structure of household heads is largely inclined toward Labours. 2. The above fact is proved more sharply in the small local city in comparison with the metropolitan city. 3. The concentration toward Labourers is more in the second class public housing. 4. In the metropolitan city, the occupation structure of the first class public housing's household heads is similar to the general citizen, that is, the deviation is little. 5. However, the occupation structure in public housing's household heads had been inclined toward Office Workers at least until 1962. The conversion in the occupational structure occured after that period. 6. It is a most one of causes to have been restricting the qualification to public housing's applicants, drastically toward lower income classes.
