Abstract
Less than two years were over since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. There is much regional difference between the advances of housing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation of detached houses is much smoother than that of old wooden houses and row houses. This paper aims to make clear the process of housing rehabilitation and dwelling reconstruction after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. The sufferers have a great variety of the processes, and the houses of friends and relatives played an important part in housing rehabilitation. We found out that it is important for housing policy not only to rehabilitate stricken houses but also to reconstruct living of the sufferers in their own town.
