Improving the Quality of Affordable Housing; the Case of Maras in Famagusta City, North Cyprus, Turkey

摘要

Affordable housing is one of the most competitive ideologies of our time because everyone acknowledges that it must happen but no one can agree on what need to response these ideologies. This is conventional, because objecting to the goal of housing and saving energies is like objecting to other essentially important needs like foods, clothes etc. This article is going to measure the requirement of human to affordable housing also the effort for improving affordability in housing of "Maras" in "Famagusta, North Cyprus". The aim of the study is to find out how improve the quality of life of the residents and the effect of natural energies as a good point regard to Mediterranean climate for enhancing the quality of affordable housing and respect to the future generation needs of energy. Various strategies can be applied to improve affordable housing in order to promote the social needs and provide people with a better place for to live. The achievement of the study is the low quality of life and high outgoings of energy consumption in "Maras". It should be considered as an attempt to introduce main elements of the space for dealing with problems of improving the quality of affordable housing. The data collection has been based on observation, questionnaire, interview with professionals and local people and surveying. Observation have been used for surveying the quality of households again questionnaires and local interview have been designed to illustrate the variety of functions is required also, interview with professionals and surveying have been done for discovering the best solution for problems.