Pathology of Housing Planning System of Low Income Groups in Territorial Spatial Arrangement Approach (Case Study: East Azarbaijan Province)

Nowadays, planning and policy-making in the housing sector in the spatial and regional approach, especially affordable housing for low-income groups, is one of the main and most important topics in economic, demographic and social studies. In this regard, the emphasis on comprehensive and systematic approaches in spatial planning and housing policy in order to provide affordable housing is an inevitable necessity. Given the importance of low-income housing planning based on comprehensive approaches and spatial perspective, the purpose of this study is to diagnose the pathology of low-income housing planning system with emphasis on territorial spatial arrangement approach in East Azerbaijan province to identify the current situation and provide practical solutions to achieve the desired situation. In this regard, the method of the present study is applied in terms of purpose and analytical-exploratory in nature, which in order to analyze the data, has been used the qualitative method of Q-factor analysis. The statistical population of the study also includes city managers and experts familiar with housing planning issues, that the sample size was determined using the Delphi method and according to the quality of the research and the use of in-depth interview method of 14 people. Findings show that the most important housing planning inadequacies of low-income groups in East Azerbaijan province can be expressed by emphasizing the territorial spatial arrangement approach in three factors; housing market economic policies, development policies, urban planning and housing construction, as well as macro (structural) policies, which Explain 77% of the total variance. Housing planning policies also have major shortcomings in the territorial spatial arrangement process of "organizing studies", "assessing the status quo and feasibility" and "foresight".