This study aims at clarifying issues on housing supply and management system for the rental housing with which tenants can construct and remodel the room arrangement and interior of dwelling units to meet their needs, and finally concludes as follows;
1. In the rental housing with which tenants can construct and remodel the room arrangement and interior of their dwelling units freely, next tenants have little flexibility to remodel the room arrangement and interior of the dwelling units, and it causes many problems on management of the rental housing.
2. In the rental housing with which tenants can change the room arrangement of their dwelling units by movable furniture and wall, if it is hardly for them to move it by themselves, they hardly change the room arrangement.
3. It is necessary to develop a “DIY” technique and make the housing maintenance system and rules in order to supply rental housing with which tenants can smoothly construct and remodel the room arrangement and interior of their dwelling units.

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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the French system called “bouclage”, the unification of the two housing subsidies, one of which is existing within the field of housing and the another within the field of social-welfare in the 80's and 90's. After the unification in 1988 and in 1991, the result they gained within the whole system was the horizontal equality of the aid, but at the same time they lost the initial purpose of the housing subsidy APL to contribute to the improvement of the national housing standard.

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The aim of this paper is to show how renewal to three-story houses prevent small-lot housing area from blighted, and consider how to conduct the renewal process to healthy environment of this type of housing area. The authors first have an overview on state of three-story houses in Tokyo, Saitama, Kanagawa and Chiba Prefectures, then survey the renewal process in a typical small-lot housing district in Saitama. They concluded that rebuilding to three-story houses by owner-residents made improve their living environment to the moderate level, and suggested the necessity of the method of control on renewal process through rebuilding on individual lot instead of redevelopment of whole district.

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The goal of this study is to identify specific characters of the havinng no communication with their neighbors in the quake-stricken areas and discuss the management of the living environment giving consideration for the having no communication with their neighbors. Questionnaire was the principal method used for this study.
The following results were obtained; 1) having no communication with their neighbors are mostly those who moved in from other areas after the earthquake, youngsters, full-time employees, those who are dissatisfied with current neighborship and those who consider that neighborship is insignificant. 2) Highly having no communication with their neighbors want to join community activities that would promote friendship. 3) The residents look to the young generation for living reconstruction. Therefore, it is necessary to spread awareness of the importance of communities among the young generation by way of public activities. Such public activities may include maintenance or improvement of the living environment with an additional purpose of developing friendship.

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This study attempt to anaryze policy for public rental housing in Korea. Eternal public rental housing system for low income family was introdused in 1989, but national budget stoped in 1993. Soul City Goverment continue to build public rental housing in redevelopment area for formaer low income rented housing family.

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