Investigating and Analyzing the Role of Housing Construction in the Growth of Cities (Case Study: Kermanshah city)

The growth and expansion of urban population in recent decades has faced the need for housing construction to provide shelter in cities at a significant speed. Housing construction policies have continued in different periods, sometimes with strong prosperity and sometimes with stagnation. This problem has consequently increased the area , growth, and dispersion in cities. The purpose of this research is to investigate and analyze the role of housing construction in the growth of Kermanshah city. The research method is descriptive-analytical. The statistical population includes managers, municipal experts and business owners of the eight regions of Kermanshah city in the number of 2980 people. Based on the Cochran formula, the number of 340 people was estimated and the questionnaires were distributed by simple random sampling method. The studied period, the constructions of Kermanshah city during the years 1390 to 1400 were investigated. To investigate this issue, a questionnaire with four dimensions (policies, services and resources, land and housing market and immigration) has been considered. The validity of the questionnaire has been confirmed in form and content, and the reliability has been confirmed based on Cronbach's alpha for the entire questionnaire at the rate of 0.83. The method of data analysis was done using SPSS 25 software and exploratory factor analysis test. The results showed that the most important factors affecting the growth of Kermanshah city in the political dimension are the government's interventions in the land market with a factor of 0.851, in services and resources, improving access and providing services with a factor of 0.683, in the dimension of the land and housing market, the growth of second homes. and villa construction with a factor of 0.824, and in the dimension of migration, rural-urban migrations with the lowest factor of 0.364 have had a greater impact on the growth of Kermanshah city.