Abstract
Questionnaire survey reveals that over 40% of housing estates in Saitama Prefecture face disappearance of shopping facilities, less two-generation living, and weed in vacant lots. Also, housings and its surroundings may yield problems in near future, if maintenance activities are not well done. Countermeasures to cope with existing and future problems of housing estates are mostly proposed. Some proposed measures to sustain housing estates are not directly related to these problems. Although anti-crime activities conducted by neighborhood associations are considered effective; other proposed measures are considered less effective. Therefore, municipalities should have sufficient meetings with residents to apply measures and review of measures if necessary.
