Sociological analysis of Mehr housing massification policy and its role in reducing social inequality under study (Mehr housing in the new phase of Hashtgerd and Shahr Lahijan in Gilan province)

The aim of the present study was sociological analysis of Mehr housing massification policy and its role in reducing social inequality under study (Mehr housing in the new phase of Hashtgerd and Shahr Lahijan in Gilan province). The research method is Grounded Theory and the studied population includes all citizens with their families living in Mehr housing in Hashtgerd city and Lahijan city in Gilan province. First, the sampling was purposeful and continued until the theoretical saturation stage. In the current research, interviews were conducted with 16 households, the head of the household living in Mehr Housing. Collected data were coded, conceptualized and categorized. Then, central and selective coding was done and based on concepts and core categories, the next samples were selected for interview. The findings of the research were based on the research paradigm model in five axes (causal conditions, intervening conditions and background conditions, strategies and consequences). The results of the research showed that the quantitative and qualitative problems of Mehr housing, poor location, economic security problems, environmental welfare problems and institutional problems are the most important problems of Mehr housing in the scope of the study, which are all rooted in the poor management of the various stages of the implementation of the Mehr housing project, and in case of neglect According to the identified problems, in the not-so-distant future, these social housing will face more complex and critical challenges.