Abstract
Housing and Land Policy into the 21st Century in Japan should be dramatically transformed from that in the latter 20th century's growing society to the policy market-oriented and stock-based to get into affluent matured society. Some goals of the new policy are realization of high quality of new housing stock and reformed existing stock and development coordinated with town making to realize close location between job place and home and to get affluent living space. The implementation of the policy is strategically focused on publicprivate partnership, local government initiatives, and involvement of various organizations and bodies like NPO, community organization of residents people and others in semi-public sector.
