Abstract
Following the Great East Japan Earthquake, the housing lease program for disaster victims supplied private rental houses as temporary housing. A large number of houses were rented in a short time and over a wide area. As such, understanding the situation of moving and living has been difficult. To examine the conditions of the households covered by this program in Iwate prefecture, this study conducted a questionnaire survey of 3,500 households and analyzed 1,700 responses. The following results were obtained. (1) Households that found out about this program after they had already rented houses were 60%, and 40% had intended to pay rent by themselves. (2) Many households started searching for houses within one month after the earthquake and found them within one month. Of these cases, 60% could secure houses in the same city and 40% rented available rooms through relatives and acquaintances. (3) Of the respondents, 60% expressed satisfaction with their ren
