大都市における公営住宅と生活保護問題の変容

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The number of the recipients of public assistance living in public housing has recently increased. There is a tendency to construct public housing in outskirts of big cities. Naturally, the recipients of public assistance concentrate in those areas. In this study we tried to investigate the background of this phenomena through analyzing 2014 case records of the recipients of public assistance in one particular city area. We have found out that the recipients of public assistance living in public housing have some characteristics which differ them from the recipients living in non-public housing. Their families are bigger, their housing situation has been secure for a comparatively long period of time, and they are "multi-problem families". If these families had not been provided with public housing, they wouldn't be able to live together ; the family structure would probably break down. Public assistance and public housing help consolidate the family, but don't solve their problems. Such families remain to be "multiproblem families" and conseqeuently they continue to receive public assistance for a very long time, sometimes through the next generation. We belive that concentration of such families in a certain city area creates "new slums".