Abstract
Following the Great East Japan Earthquake, the housing lease program for disaster victims supplied private rental houses that serve as temporary housing. Many households moved to urban areas and other cities in order to acquire rental houses. For that reason, grasping the trend of housing reconstruction after leaving these houses is difficult. To examine the situation and the intent to reconstruct by households using 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) Of households that had already left to live in rental houses, 70% reconstructed their own houses. (2) Households that moved to other cities with this program tended to reconstruct houses in their new cities, not in their original cities. (3) Of households that were still living in rental houses, 30% intend to reconstruct houses on new land developed by public projects and to occupy public housing. (4) Of households that were still living in rental houses, 70% did not have prospects for housing reconstruction because of delayed projects and payment difficulties.
