Spatial analysis of Qom Urban Areas to Build Social Housing Project with an Emphasis on the Analytic Hierarchy Process

Social housing refers to a particular type of housing mainly build by national or local government in order to provide houses for low-income groups. Qom, one of Iran's major cities need attention in the housing sector due to its high population one of the most important factors in the development and construction of residential projects is the optimized site. One of the methods of decision-making through weighting to the criteria is hierarchical method of AHP. Based on this method, criteria and sub-criteria are ranked and options for selection of optimized locations are specified. This applied study is a descriptive – analytical research and relies on library resources. Effective criteria and sub- criteria in locating the residential areas are introduced and the hierarchical tree is drawn. These criteria are set in the form of a questionnaire and distributed among urban and housing experts in the municipality of Qom and in order to calculate the average weight given to each criteria and sub criteria paired comparisons have been used. After doing the calculations in the analytic hierarchy process, the output results were in such a way that District 8 is the most suitable area for the construction of social housing. Districts 2 and 3 are a priority after district 8. In this regard, districts, 5, 6 and 7 of the most improper areas in locating and constructing of the project.