چکیده:
Urban planning in Iran has always been influenced by the traditional planning approach, and accordingly, the positive consequences of urban programs often benefit higher-income groups. Therefore, housing provision policies for low-income urban groups often target non-intended groups, and as a result, these groups are not only marginalized from these programs but are practically driven towards the outskirts of cities and marginalization. Since 1999, with the establishment of the Cities Alliance organization and with the support of the World Bank and UN-HABITAT, the City Development Strategy (CDS) has been implemented in more than 250 cities in the developing world with the aim of reducing urban poverty and improving housing for low-income groups, which has also yielded successful results. The CDS approach believes that in third-world cities, the future is now; therefore, regardless of the long-term and inflexible goals of comprehensive plans and emphasizing the principle of implementation and citizen participation, it directly confronts their daily challenges, including housing, and also provides a major part of the resources required for the plans—including human resources, management, and construction materials—through local resources. In the present research, 23 characteristics of 330 families living in rent-to-own units in Rasht city, which were constructed in line with the housing provision policy for low-income groups, were collected. The method of providing financial resources and their repayment, household size, employment, income level and education, housing selection criteria, and commuting costs are considered among the most important of these characteristics. Analysis of the obtained results shows that although the main goal of constructing these houses was to provide housing for low-income urban groups in Rasht, most of their residents belong to middle and upper-middle-class groups. This article attempts to address the importance and position of CDS in this field while examining and analyzing housing provision policies in Iran.
خلاصه ماشینی:
A noteworthy point in this regard is that in most formulated programs and policies for providing housing to urban low-income groups, the extent and manner of the influence of the type of attitude and new macro urban planning approaches, specifically the SDC approach, in the housing provision process have not been given much importance.
This research attempts to achieve new results regarding the policies of providing housing for urban low-income groups in Iran, components related to residential use, and the characteristics of its users in the case study area, based on the collection and analysis of primary data.
Based on the analysis of the statistical data of the present research, it can be said that as a final conclusion, the general satisfaction level of households with their residential units and other settlement conditions has been at a desirable level; but on the other hand, it must also be said that the policy of providing housing for urban low-income groups in the case study area of this research has not reached a major part of its goals.
Urban researchers seek effective tools for creating said changes in adopting the Sustainable Development Strategy (SDC) approach; to this end, it is necessary to mitigate the current conditions of the urban planning process in Iran and consequently the housing provision policies for urban low-income groups by utilizing urban planning based on the SDC approach.
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