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2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

The Changing Context of Middle-Class Housing in Japan's Major Cities

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16360302
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Town planning/Architectural planning
Research InstitutionKobe University

Principal Investigator

HIRAYAMA Yosuke  Kobe University, Faculty of Human Development, Professor, 発達科学部, 教授 (70212173)

Project Period (FY) 2004 – 2006
Keywordsthe housing market / housing conditions / major cities / middle classes / housing trajectory / housing polic / company society / the filtering system
Research Abstract

The focus of this research project is on transformations in the housing condition of urban middle-class households. The Japanese housing system in the post-war period has been oriented towards the expansion of home ownership, associated with vigorous economic development and the government's housing policy to accelerate the mass construction of owner-occupied housing. However, over the past two decades, the rise and fall of the bubble economy, the increased fragmentation of society and the shift of housing policy towards accentuating the role of the market in providing and financing housing have combined to destabilize the circumstances surrounding middle class home ownership particularly in major cities.
The research project, thorough a questionnaire survey on urban middle class households as well as statistical surveys, has found and demonstrated the following trends in urban home ownership: owning a house, which used to produce considerable capital gains, now generates substantial capital losses particularly on the second-hand condominium sector; unlike the baby-boomer generation which climbed up the housing ladder relatively smoothly along with high-speed economic development, the young generation entered the labor force market during the post-bubble period when the serious, long-standing recession encompassed the country, and their prospects of housing and home ownership are now extraordinary uncertain; transformations in the public sector's housing measures towards an emphasis on market based housing provision have noticeable eroded the traditional condition of middle class home ownership.

  • Research Products

    (11 results)

All 2007 2006 2005 2004

All Journal Article (10 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Housing and state strategy in Japan2007

    • Author(s)
      Yosuke Hirayama
    • Journal Title

      Housing and the New Welfare State : Perspectives from East Asia and Europe, : Ashgate(Richard Groves, Alan Murie and Christopher Watson (eds.))

      Pages: 101-126

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Housing and state strategy in Japan2007

    • Author(s)
      Yosuke Hirayama
    • Journal Title

      Housing and the New Welfare State: Perspectives from East Asia and Europe (Richard Groves, Alan Murie and Christopher Watson (eds.))(Ashgate)

      Pages: 101-126

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Housing and Social Transition in Japan2007

    • Author(s)
      Yosuke Hirayama, Richard Ronald
    • Journal Title

      London : Routledge

      Pages: 1-216

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Housing commodities, context and meanings : transformations in Japan's urban condominium sector2006

    • Author(s)
      Richard Ronald, Yosuke Hirayama
    • Journal Title

      Urban Studies 43(13)

      Pages: 2467-2483

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 住宅選択の自由?2006

    • Author(s)
      平山洋介
    • Journal Title

      都市住宅学 第53号

      Pages: 65-68

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 住宅政策の市場化と地域変容2006

    • Author(s)
      平山洋介
    • Journal Title

      都市問題 97巻5巻

      Pages: 67-75

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Housing commodities, context and meanings : transformations in Japan's urban condominium sector2006

    • Author(s)
      Richard Ronald, Yosuke Hirayama
    • Journal Title

      Urban Studies 43 (13)

      Pages: 2467-2483

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Running hot and cold in the urban home-ownership market : the experience of Japan's major cities2005

    • Author(s)
      Yosuke Hirayama
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 20(1)

      Pages: 1-20

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Running hot and cold in the urban home-ownership market : the experience of Japan's major cities,2005

    • Author(s)
      Yosuke Hirayama
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 20 (1)

      Pages: 1-20

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] グローバルエイジの住宅2004

    • Author(s)
      平山洋介
    • Journal Title

      住宅土地経済 No.52

      Pages: 2-7

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] 東京の果てに2006

    • Author(s)
      平山洋介
    • Total Pages
      1-298
    • Publisher
      NTT出版
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より

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Published: 2008-05-27  

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