RESIDENTIAL MOVEMENT WITHIN MUNICIPALITIES UNDER THE HOUSING LEASE PROGRAM FOR DISASTER VICTIMS IN MIYAGI PREFECTURE

－Case of Sendai, Ishinomaki and Kesennuma－

Abstract

After the Great East Japan Earthquake, the housing lease program provided private rental houses to be used as temporary housing. Many victims moved from their homes to other areas when they moved into rental houses. In order to examine these residential movements within municipalities and their influence on where rebuilding occurred, data concerning leases in three municipalities of Miyagi Prefecture were analyzed. From thirty to fifty percent of households moved to other areas more urbanized than their original areas or to less-damaged areas. These moved households have tendency to live in almost the same areas as their rental houses.