2017 Volume 16 Issue 2 Pages 108-111
The purpose of this research is clarifying what kind of factors have a relationship with abandoned vacant houses by cross tabulation analysis. The factors contain the characteristics of both physical aspects and property owner of vacant houses. Key findings were as follows. First, several tendencies regarding to abandonment of vacant houses were observed among factors. For example, the worse the abandoned vacant houses was, the narrower the road attached to the vacant houses was. Second, the extent of abandonment of vacant houses differed depending on the neighborhoods. It could be considered that such extent is related to the characteristics of the neighborhoods. Further research needs to be conducted on quantification of the characteristics per neighborhood.
