Collapse and Reconstruction: Housing Recovery Policy in Kobe after the Great Hanshin Earthquake

Yosuke HIRAYAMA

• Abstract


• Introduction


• The Characteristics of Housing Damage


• Polarisation in Housing Recovery


• Two-tiered Housing Policy


• Implementing Housing Recovery Policy
  
  Temporary Housing Policy
  Permanent Housing Policy
  

• Residualisation of Public Housing


• Obstacles to Rebuilding


• Concluding Comments


• Acknowledgements


• Correspondence


• References

• Figure 1. Map of Kobe
• Table 1. Housing Tenure by Ward, 1993
• Table 2. Year of Housing Construction by Ward, 1993
• Table 3. Annual Income by Ward, 1993
• Table 4. Housing Units Lost by the Earthquake
• Figure 2. Housing Recovery Rate by Ward
• Figure 3. Population Index by Ward before the Earthquake
• Figure 4. Population Index by Ward after the Earthquake
• Table 5. Kobe City Emergency Three-Year Plan for Housing Reconstruction
• Table 6. The Coverage Rate of Low Income Housing Units Projected to Units Lost, Estimate as of March 1998