Analysis of the Role of Rural Development Actors in Organizing Rural Housing with a Multi-Subject-Multi-Player Model (Case Study: of Villages in Zanjan County)

The issue of rural housing is an institutional-structural process and is very sensitive and important. Success of the issue necessarily depends on the participation and interaction of all stakeholders, which includes three groups of attendees, observers and officials. The present study seeks to explain and analyze the role of rural development actors in organizing rural housing in Zanjan Township with a descriptive-analytical method. Data collection was done by two methods field and documentary. The statistical population includes 13 sample villages in Zanjan Township with a population of 14075 people, of which 374 persons were selected as a sample according to Cochran's formula. For data analysis, factor analysis, structural equation model and multi-subject-multiplayer model were used with the help of SPSS, Lisrel and Mactor software. Findings showed that land price indices (0.665); ease of receiving infrastructure facilities (0.743); type of construction materials (0.764); and regarding the standard of facade design and layout (0.747) are among the most important factors of improving the quality of rural housing. Based on the structural equation model, actors had the most caus-effect relationships with the managerial index (5.01) and the physical index (4.82). Based on a multi-theme multi-player model, the activists of the Islamic Revolution Housing Foundation; Dehyari of the village and the inhabitants of the village "with the impetus of" residential strength; administrative costs and construction license; adherence to the standard of facade design and layout; house price; issuance of manufacturing license; resolving common housing disputes and ease of obtaining infrastructure facilities are the main factors in rural housing developments. Therefore, for the development of rural housing, some attempts need to be done, such as physical improvement; empowering the weak sections of the villages and facilitating the legal acquisition of land for the villagers.