Abstract
This study investigated the location and residents of public housings and explored the spatial characteristics of public housing renewal in the wards of Tokyo. 3,626 buildings in the wards of Tokyo, residents in the 5 central wards of Tokyo were analyzed. As a result of the examination, it is considered that neoliberal housing policy aimed withdrawal from social security in Japan and regional preference of local government oriented toward reducing expenditure and securing financial resources since the late 1990s are making spatial restrictions on the residential place of the low-income group by public housing renewal.
