Identification and Prioritization of the Problems of Mehr Housing Projects in the City of Yazd Using Factor Analysis

In this study, a statistical approach was used to identify the problems of Mehr housing project in the city of Yazd. The data were collected in the form of documents (e.g. articles, books, magazines, and web sites on the Internet) and through field work (i.e. questionnaire, interview and observation). The main variables of the research were a set of 46 items extracted according to the statistical principles and the data. The study sample consisted of 150 experts who were familiar with the conditions of Mehr housing. The data were analyzed through factor analysis with the SPSS and Excel software programs. According to the data, the variables were prioritized in five stages as fllows: the first stage with the variable of lack of coordination among the excavation and building foundation projects based on the area profile with the load factor of 0/884, the second stage with the variable of per capita religious inappropriate spaces with the load factor of 0/837, the third stage with the variable of undesirable internal architectural patterns with the load factor of 0/0767, the fourth stage with the variable of designing structures not on the basis of modern systems with the load factor of 0/862, and the fifth stage with the variable of incompatible residential unit area with the load factor of 0/757.