The Use and efficiency of housing stock in Turkey

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Oğuz, Saygın Can
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Although efficient use of stock is an important issue of housing economics and policies, there is very little research on the subject in Turkey. This study aims to investigate the stock efficiency in Turkey by measuring the degree to which the housing stock matches household size. Distributions between dwelling units and the households in terms of their size are investigated for this purpose. The stock is studied within three zones of occupational density: أcomfort, overcrowding and underoccupationؤ, according to international occupancy standards. The findings reveal that the rapid rise in underoccupation in the stock is the dominant character of housing in Turkey, which is a result of housing system producing larger and larger dwellings despite the declining average household size in the country. The analyses in the province center level show that there are great differences between the western and eastern parts of the country. Reasons of overcrowding and underoccupation are also investigated by means of regression analysis. Tenure, income level and proportion of gecekondu emerge as the most effective variables in explaining the differentiation of overcrowding and underoccupation across province centers.
Housing, Urban renewal, Stock efficiency
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13396
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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S. C. Oğuz, “The Use and efficiency of housing stock in Turkey,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2003.
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