Analyzing the future challenges of the advancement of Mehr housing policies and the national housing action plan (Case Study: Pardis new-town)

Housing construction policies in the country after the Islamic revolution and during the last two decades have faced many challenges and have not been very successful. The severe reduction in housing construction and delivery delays are major challenges in the field of housing construction policies in Iran. Due to the intensive increase in the price of land, materials, inflation, etc, the construction market has been facing increasing stagnation for the past decade, which reflects the housing policy of Mehr housing and then the national housing action plan is raised to continue it and eliminate the existing weaknesses. The research method is descriptive-analytical and its purpose is to analyz the future challenges in Mehr housing policies and the national housing action plan for Pardis new-town which located in Tehran province. The selection of criteria and indicators and their finalization was done by asking experts and based on the Delphi technique, and a questionnaire was prepared as a research tool and given to 35 experts in the field of housing. The validity of the questionnaire has been confirmed by relevant experts and its reliability using Cronbach's alpha test. Structural equation modeling and SMART-PLS software were used to analyze the obtained data. The research results show that all the intended indicators are considered as acute issues, sensitive weaknesses and harmful challenges in the future and according to the processes based on the relationships between variables, the physical criterion with the importance of 0.268, the economic criterion with the importance of 0.262, The social criterion with the importance of 0.248 and the management criterion with the importance of 0.205 respectively are the most challenging future components in the Mehr housing policies and the national action plan for Pardis new-town.