A Consideration of Issues in the Government＇s Public Housing Projects in Post-War Iraq

作     者：Tara Abdulrazak Suguru Mori 

作者机构：Graduate School of Engineering Hokkaido University Sapporo 060-8628 Japan Faculty of Engineering Hokkaido University Sapporo 060-8628 Japan 

出 版 物：《Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture》 (土木工程与建筑（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2012年第6卷第9期

页      面：1138-1148页

学科分类：12[管理学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 120401[管理学-行政管理] 081302[工学-建筑设计及其理论] 08[工学] 0813[工学-建筑学] 

主　　题：Post-war public housing reconstruction process national housing project. 

摘      要：Post-war Iraq is a mix of potential opportunities, promising intentions, and difficult challenges. After 2003, the government adopted a program to manage the housing crisis and satisfy housing needs. Through a fieldwork survey, we aimed to present this program by reviewing the government targets, main housing problems, governmental legislations, and construction process. We found that the government abandoned its centralized role in its National Housing Project as it opened the door of Iraqi housing market to foreign and local investors. We also found that, considering the enormous need for housing the occupancy rate of the governmental housing units are so low and construction is also generally slow. We deduced that the pricing model of the government＇s national housing project is far from our general notion of public housing for low-income post-war people. Moreover, it is necessary for the government to formulate a clearer strategic vision and to adopt more innovative approaches to address effectively and rapidly the trade-offs of the short and long terms objectives of the reconstruction process in post-war Iraq.