Explaining the Mehr Housing Residents’ Quality of LifeCase Study: Qaen City

Generally, the importance and necessity of housing preparation is not hidden from anyone. Especially in a country such as Iran, where the majority of the population is at middle and low-income levels, housing has always been a basic issue for households. It should be noted that the quality of housing is directly related to the quality of life and the social and economic development of different societies, so that the accommodation of families in unsuitable housing has caused social problems and anomalies that mutually will lead to negative economic effects on the communities. Therefore, proper housing does not only depend on its low price, but also other factors in the construction of housing, including security, tranquility, comfort, favorable environmental and health conditions and such factors will have a direct impact on appropriate housing. In this regard, over the recent years, the Mehr housing project was put on the agenda by Iran to provide housing for the middle and low-income levels of society; the observations indicate that the project, although the project partially elevated the access of the middle and low-income groups of society to housing, the lack of proper quality of the constructed housing caused dissatisfaction among the residents. Accordingly, the importance and necessity of the present study is that by identifying and evaluating the effective factors on the Mehr housing residents’s quality of life, the necessary knowledge is provided about the project’s problems and mechanisms are taken to reduce and solve them. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to investigate the effective factors on the Mehr housing residents’s quality of life of Qaen. Also, in this research, the Mehr housing residents’s quality of life of Qaen in relation to economic, security, leisure, satisfaction of housing, health and welfare, environmental, management, and participation factors has been investigated.

The general research approach is quantitative one and in terms of data collection method, it’s based on library and field data. In order to distribute the questionnaire, a sample of 250 people was examined. Data analysis were performed by using of descriptive statistical indicators such as frequency distribution and also Structural Equation Modeling Method with Partial Least Squares (PLS).

Overally, the results showed that economic factors, with a path coefficient of 0.633, and a security component with a path coefficient of 0.717, have a positive and significant effect on the Mehr housing residents’s quality of life. Also, the leisure component, with a path coefficient of 0.524, and the housing satisfaction component, with a path coefficient of 0.467, have a positive and significant effect on the Mehr housing residents’s quality of life. In addition, the health and comfort component, with a coefficient of 0.727, and the environmental component, with a coefficient of 0.747, have a positive and significant effect on the the Mehr housing residents’s quality of life. The results also indicate that managerial factors have a positive and significant effect on the quality of life of Mehr residents with a coefficient of 0.668; finally, the component of participation has a positive and significant effect on the the Mehr housing residents’s quality of life, with a coefficient of 0.678.

In this study, the effective factors on the Mehr housing residents’s quality of life of Qaen city were examined. Accordingly, as the economic situation of the residents improves, it will improve their quality of life. Also, as the security situation in the area improves, it can be expected that it will improve the residents’s quality of life. Providing the necessary conditions for families to spend their leisure time can also have a positive effect on their quality of life. The results express that by applying the housing applicants’s opinons and expectations in the design and construction of housing, will lead to their satisfaction with the quality of it that mutually will improve their quality of life. Also, the necessary conditions preparation to improve the comfort of residents will increase their satisfaction and can affect the quality of life. In addition, environmental conditions have always been among the effective factors on the residents’s satisfaction, so that by improving the environmental and health conditions of the place, the residents’s satisfaction can be increased, which in turn will improve their quality of life. Also, the training of the Mehr housing complexes residents in order to manage the various affairs of the building can bring the residents’s satisfaction. It should be noted that participation, by improving social solidarity among residents, will improve their responsibility for different commonalities and therefore will have a positive impact on their satisfaction and quality of life.