Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
the 4th International Conference S.ARCH 2017, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 7 - 09 Haziran 2017, ss.446-459, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
In the literature, commonly it is evidenced that there are shared properties of life quality, as well as differentiated ones based on its context. Quality of life is associated with social, economic and physical environments as well as individual and the public. In the city, quality of life is determined by the interaction of social, economic and physical environments; and is directly related to the decision and implementation of the central and local decision-makers. Metropolitan municipalities that serve the urban population has important responsibilities related to quality of life. They in fulfilling these responsibilities, obviously remain insufficient. The emergence of slums and the formation of an infra- structure and unhealthy environment is an example. Slum areas have not yet reached the level of desired urbanization. Therefore, these areas have become targets for various urban renewal projects. As a result, today, through the State and municipalities, social housing is produced in order to find solutions to the housing problems of the low income and to prevent squatters. Improvement of the city 's quality of life in general is the major goal. This article discusses the result of a study which sought to evaluate how the resettled residents had adapted to their new social housing in Istanbul. The objective of this study is to examine the impact that social housing productions based on squatter housing demolition in Istanbul have had on their residents’ quality of life (by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Directorate of Residential Applications). The resulting impact on quality of life of slum owners and the urban squatters.is surveyed by a large sample of households in Istanbul’s Social Housing. Removal of the squatter dwellers and their relocation to the social housing affects significantly their life quality after the removal. To assess the quality of life of residents, structured interviews were conducted. A total of 506 interviews with questionnaire were completed in 3 districts of Istanbul. The results of this research provide unique information from which improvements in future social housing projects could be made. Accordingly, demographic (family life), living situation (individual well-being, quality of life), physical (housing, shelter), environment (habitat, urban infrastructure), social (neighbourhood relations, family relations), economic (business, employment, income, indebtedness), access to services (transportation, municipal services) and 8 indicators, including general factors of life quality were identified, to formulate the concepts and questions in the questionnaire given face to face. As a result of this study, slum residents and practitioners, in order to improve dwellers’ life quality are suggested to work together and develop the paths of communication firstly. Only then, approach to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of social housing production can be attained.