Abstract
A thorough examination has been made of the general tendency of housing expenditure in Japan after the war, by cheking chiefly coefficients of income elasticity of demand. It was calculated by using figures of housing expenses and the related information in the Annual Report on the Family Income and Expenditure from 1963 to 1979 and the National Survey of Family Income and Expenditures from 1964 to 1979. The result was that the expenditure for housing expenses had the same trend as the expenditure of consumption after the war; especially after experiencing economic booms in the 1960's and in 1973 they have become balanced one by one from the items related with essential goods to luxury goods. After 1973, also each expenditure of items consisting of housing expenses has shown the same tendency. But, by tenure of dwelling units, they have shown very different ones.
