| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study investigates recent changes in housing problems among the low-income population (working-age poor renters, in particular) in two major metropolitan areas in Japan, Tokyo and Osaka. My findings show that classic dilapidated rental housing, old wooden-structure multi-family housing without living facilities, has rapidly been disappearing or largely occupied by poor elderly households. In contrast, the young working-age urban poor have been increasingly living in better conditioned housing but facing the new housing problem: higher housing cost burden. This study also examined the housing and social welfare/labor policies for the working-age urban poor. The housing policy is opting out of the new construction of public housing. The social welfare policy/labor policies considers housing problems as labor problem. The affordable housing problems are emerging in big cities though they are hardly recognized as critical agenda in current policy discussion for the poor in Japan.
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