An Analysis of Social-economical Attributes of the Residences of MEHR Social Housing Projects; Five Case Studies of Fars province

The supply of affordable housing for every citizen is an important governmental policy with a particular consideration of low-income groups. This group of residents would not be able to provide independent housing without governmental intervention. Social housing program is regarded as an effective policy in the pursuit of justice in accessing to proper housing in many parts of the world. The Mehr social housing program as supportive housing and social policy has been implemented to meet the housing needs of low-income classes since 2008 in Iranian major cities. So far، the Mehr housing project has been influential in changing many aspects of the urban systems، and consequently impacting on social، economic and environmental characteristics of them. The evaluation and criticism of this policy from different aspects to set up the goals and actions for the future planning is essential. According to the evaluation report of the Iranian Ministry of Road and Urbanism، by the end of 2012 Fars Province ranked the third in terms of social housing production. And at the end of 2012، the average progress in the implementation of housing projects in this province was reported by 80 percent. Totally، Fars province authorities are committed to build 112 thousand units. The structure of this paper is as follow: the first part includes the introduction، state of the problem، the objectives of the research، and the theoretical and conceptual background of the research. Subsequently، the method of the research and analytical approach of the collected data are presented. Discussion and conclusions are provided in the final section.