Social Assistance to Family Finance for Housing Reconstruction Following Earthquakes:

Preliminary Calculation of Reconstruction Aids on the Basis of a Fundamental Idea and Published Statistics

Abstract

Reconstruetion aids for private housing structures lost in earthquakes were calculated on the basis of six criteria and published statistics. The criteria were generate from a principle given by the authors that the housing recovery does not degrade the quality of living of the affected, and their acccptability was confirrned through a questionnaire survey done in affectcd areas of a recent damaging earthquake. It was suggested that the financial assistance is needed only by families with an annual income less than seven million yen when eathquake insurance is not included and four million yen when included. Diffusien of earthquake insurance and financial standing of the affected were the significant issues carefully included in the development of assistance models.