Study of social housing within the contex of the low-income housing problem in Turkey; Istanbul Bezirganbahçe case study

Sheltering problem appears as the basic subject seeking a way out in the World. While countries searching for solutions by the help of different policies, social housing policy is mostly experienced. Becoming a homeowner, renting and renting control are the solution methods developed by government made housing intended particularly for poor and low-income people. It is observed that, social housing policies work successfully in highly developed countries like England, Netherlands, French and this should be case study.Turkey is among the lately industrialized countries. Urbanization in Turkey has begun before industrialization and has moved far beyond it. As the city population increases through the immigrations from village to city since 1950?s, the quality and quantity of the built houses were not enough for shelter of the population. Housing problems due to lack of quality housing led to distorted urbanization, irregular formation and illegal housing production for from basic health conditions.In this context, primarily, basic causes of hosing problem are considered; determining what part of the problem the poor and low-income people stand and the impact of the problem. Social housing perception in highly developed and emergent countries is studied, social housing case studies applied around world and Turkey are taken as reference. In order to understand the living conditions in Istanbul ? Bezirganbahçe social housing, observations and determinations along with a survey is presented. In this content main aim of this thesis is; to come up with quality and quantity solutions to poor and low-income housing problem by basing world case studies.