Analyzing the affecting factors for access to affordable housing

House as a shelter is one of the primary rights and the most essential human needs, and all the people of society regardless of race, sex, social class and ethical background should have access to a suitable house. This kind of approach to housing creates the social justice concept in the mind. In this regard, achieving such housing that provides healthy life for citizens creates affordable housing concept. Affordable housing implies residential space that has all quantitative and qualitative indicators for having suitable and healthy settlement for citizens. Suitable shelter is not only a ceiling over person’s head. Suitable shelter means having all the amenities and facilities necessary for healthy human life. Therefore, in order to obtain affordable housing; households should spend less than 30 percent of their annual income. In this paper, with descriptive and analytical method, the housing challenging factors have been investigated and also affordable housing causative factors and indicators have been analyzed.