Sociological Analysis of Mehr Housing Massification Policy and its Role in Reducing Dissatisfaction with Mehr Housing Quality (Case Study: Mehr Housing in New Hashtgerd Phase and Lahijan, Province)
Subject Areas : Iranian Sociological ReviewForozan Nahas 1 , Mostafa Azkia 2 , Mehrdad Navanbakhsh 3
1 - Ph.D. Student of Sociology of Economics and Development, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
3 - Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Keywords: Housing, low-income groups, Mehr Housing, Reducing Dissatisfaction with ,
Abstract :
The present study aims to conduct a sociological analysis of the Mehr Housing massification policy and its role in reducing dissatisfaction with the quality of Maskan-e-Mehr (case study: Mehr Housing in New Hashtgerd Phase and Lahijan, Province). The research method was the Grounded Theory, and the studied population comprised all citizens and their families who live in Mehr Housing in Hashtgerd City and Lahijan City in Gilan Province. The sampling process was done based on the purposive or judgmental method and continued until reaching the theoretical saturation. In this study, 16 households and heads of families living in Mehr Housing were interviewed. The collected data were coded, conceptualized, and categorized. Axial and selective coding was then conducted, and subsequent samples were selected for interviews based on the core concepts and categories. Research results were divided into five classes (causal conditions, intervening conditions, context conditions, strategies, and consequences) based on the paradigm used in this study. Findings introduced quantitative-qualitative problems, poor location, security-economic problems, environmental-welfare issues, and institutional problems are the most crucial problems of Mehr Housing in the studied area. The mentioned issues are rooted in weak management of different stages of the Mehr Housing project. If the abovementioned problems are not solved, these social residences will face many more critical and complicated challenges.