A Study on the Function and Self-Actualization of the Mutual Self-help Housing Program

Abstract

This paper explains the function and self-actualization of the Mutual Self-help Housing Program in the United States, using a framework that develops an inclusive society from the perspective of health to the conditions of the Maslow's hierarchy of needs. This paper's result indicates that the Mutual Self-help Housing Program has the function of empowering participating households and fostering social capital in the community through the output of affordable housing, the outcome of homeownership and the outgrowth of knowledge and technical support. And also, these functions are considered to be ones that lead to self-actualization of participating households.