Analysis of key factors affecting the housing of low-income urban groups Case study: Rasht city

Housing is durable, immovable, multidimensional, heterogeneous, and costly goods. Housing plays a very significant role in the social organization of space. Therefore, some policies must be taken in housing planning to facilitate the access terms to housing for each social group,in particular, low-income groups. One of the modern methods to achieve this goal in planning is the futurology-based methods. In this regard, the current study aims to identify the influential factors in the urban housing of the low-income class. This study is applied in terms of purpose and analytical-descriptive in terms of nature. Library and survey studies were used to collect the information. The statistical population of the research is the experts in housing and low-income groups. 35 experts were selected using a purposive sampling method due to the unknown number of the population. The applied indicators consist of 43 variables in 5 different aspects. Environmental scanning technique, Delphi method, and Mic Mac software were used to analyze data. According to the findings obtained from the Delphi method and environmental scanning, 43 factors affecting the housing planning of the low-income class of Rasht City were identified. After analyzing by Mic Mac software, 15 factors including housing price, unemployment, inappropriate poverty alleviation policies, population growth rate, housing rent, construction materials, public and private investments, land price, construction credits, construction costs, lack of proper urban governance, unfair distribution of power sources, income, inflation, tolls and taxes, were recognized as the main factors affecting the housing development of low-income groups of the city.