An Analysis on Policies of Reducing Informal Housing in Iran

Since housing has the highest weight in the basket of fees in Iranian urban households,some people have turned to informal market because of financial inability to buy a house.Housing policies can act as an effective means to reduced informal housing and to improve life quality of settlements.The main question of this study is that to what extent previous housing policies have reduced informal housing and what factors can increase the efficiency of these policies.This study is based on descriptive–analytical methods.At first, with reviewing the studies done on this issue and perusing five-year socio-economic development plans of Islamic Republic of Iran, policies related to informal housing were extracted.Secondly,the variables related to each policy were determined.Then,by distributing questionnaires among 100 experts in the field of housing, required data were collected.To analyze the data,Structural modeling method and confirmatory factor analysis in AMOS GRAPHIC software were used and using the level of factor load and regression Weight,the main consequences of each policy and its effective variables were extracted.The results showed that although the main policies in informal housing issue have a lot of Strengths such as reducing the costs of housing construction,reducing the use of land because of construction of apartments, increasing the life quality of settlements these policies have weaknesses including generality of plans and not considering people’s participation.