Abstract
In the early 1990s, when the land prices were inflated, the local government of Tokyo Special Ward established the Housing Ordinances to indicate the principles of a housing and residential environment policy, methods for systematizing the policy with regard to policies in related areas, and the contents of the policy itself. However, the actual roles played by these Housing Ordinances in the housing and residential environment policy have not been clear. Therefore, attention was focused on the Housing Ordinances of the Tokyo Special Ward in this study, in order to clarify the following:
1. Roles played by the Ordinances as indicated in questionnaires collected from local governments
2. The practical implementation of the Housing Ordinances in terms of:
(1) Constructing a framework for the housing and residential environment policy,
(2) Providing a secure institutional foundation for the policy,
(3) Systematizing the policy, and
(4) Other roles in relation to the regional development policy.
