Assessing the factors affecting the volatility of informal settlements based on the views of key stakeholders and stakeholders (Case study: marginalized communities in Yazd)

Today one of the most important challenges facing urban management is informal settlement. This phenomenon is one of the undesirable consequences of urbanization in the contemporary world, especially as a result of rapid industrialization and regional inequalities, and as a result of the deprivation and lack of informal settlements of urban lifestyle facilities in comparison with other urban areas, they are the focal point of acute problems Urban and antisustainable human development. Considering the importance of the above issue, the aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting the unsustainability of informal settlements in Yazd city.

The present study is descriptive-analytic in the research method and in terms of applied purpose. The statistical population of the study consists of experts and urban managers and households living in Hassanabad neighborhoods, housing and slaughterhouses. For the first society, in order to identify the effective indicators on unsustainable informal settlement as snowball and purposeful, 31 experts and managers of the city and for the second community 366 households were selected through random sampling method using Cochran formula to determine the effect of each indicator. In this research, qualitative findings (content analysis of interviews in MAXQUDA qualitative analysis software) and quantitative (T-test of single sample and exploratory factor analysis) were used to analyze the data.

The results of this study showed that 44 indicators in the form of 5 factors in the study area affecting the instability of informal settlements. Among the loaded factors, the economic factor with 9 indicators and the special value of 11.757 and the 26.722 variance were the most important factors and the environmental health factor with 4 indicators and the special value of 5.843 and the variance of 13.280 was the least important factor affecting the instability of informal settlements.

This phenomenon is inevitable and growing and should be accepted as an undeniable fact, so from the point of view of organizing and empowering, which relies on the comprehensive participation of people in solving their problems and provides them with the possibility that according to priorities and Their needs to improve their situation are emphasized.