Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Afshar Kabiri ¹
• Javad Jahangirzadeh ²

¹ Urmia University

² Department of Sociology, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran

Abstract

The increasing growth of the urban population in the country in the past few decades has turned the lack of housing into the main problem of the urban society. The Mehr housing project was implemented as a social policy in the field of housing with the aim of providing low-cost housing for the low-income sections of society and controlling housing prices in the last decade. The formation of the new city of Golman with the implementation of the Mehr housing project not only has undeniable positive aspects, and it made a segment of the society the owner of a house, which was not possible to own a house with today's economic equations, but the neglect of social and cultural aspects despite Spending huge expenses in economic and financial terms, the result is the formation of residential complexes that are homogeneous in physical-physical terms but heterogeneous in terms of culture and socially unstable. This research is designed with the aim of qualitative analysis of social sustainability in Mehr Shahr New Golman, Urmia, based on a questionnaire-analytical strategy. According to its nature, the method of conducting the research is a qualitative method of the ethnographic type, the tool and technique of collecting information was interviews and direct observations of the researcher. The statistical population of the research was the residents of Mehr houses in the new city of Golman, and according to the nature of the research, 22 people were determined by theoretical sampling based on the theoretical saturation criterion. After analyzing the content of the interview, the concepts and categories were documented and analyzed with reference to the emic perspective of the respondents and the ethical perception based on the researcher's observations and theoretical knowledge. The findings of the research indicate the social instability in the dimensions of weak neighborhood identity, weak social capital, concentration of poverty, feeling of exclusion and social inequality, normative vacuum and weakness of apartment living culture, spatial separation, cultural inhomogeneity and dissatisfaction with the quality of life. Despite owning a house, it is among the respondents that ignoring such a situation will turn this city into a ghetto of the poor and modern marginalization.

Keywords

• social sustainability
• Mehr housing
• Golman new city
• concentration of poverty
• modern marginalization

Main Subjects

• Urban Sociology