Abstract
Restraint effects on rental housing for urban families by the Land and House Lease Law is one of recent topics in current housing problems. Fukui (1994) insisted that the law has strong restraint effects on rental house especially for urban nuclear families and presented several findings which would support his logic. Excessive smallness of rental house compared to owned house, shortage of detatched rental house, lower rent of house in which renters live long are the main facts which Fukui presented in the paper. This study examined these facts if they could sustain his logic and concluded that these could not prove restraint effects. Promoting factors such as propety tax and inheritance tax are so strong as to make market rent low.
