Social policy of housing in Turkey: the case of the city of Van after the 2011 earthquake

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2011 Van Earthquake was the initiator of an urban transformation wave across Turkey primarily targeting disaster-risky areas. Today’s conjuncture shows that public actions aiming at the compensation of past damages and the mitigation of future ones have been mostly embodied in state-led mass housing and urban regeneration projects. In this context, the main aim of this thesis is to analyze housing policies implemented in post-earthquake recovery process of the city of Van. Welfare issues brought about policy implementations concerning housing reconstruction are evaluated on the basis of problems created by capitalist urbanization, particularly being commodification of housing and displacement. After the analysis of Van case, social policy recommendations are improved upon universalist and redistributive social policy approaches.

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Earthquake resistant design., Earthquake hazard analysis., Housing development., Housing policy, Social policy

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/27608

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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C. Ertürk, “Social policy of housing in Turkey: the case of the city of Van after the 2011 earthquake,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2018.