Comparison on housing satisfaction of general purchase households and resettled cooperative households living in redevelopment apartments located in the northern seoul area

The Purpose of this paper was to compare housing satisfaction between general purchase households and resettled households living in redevelopment apartments, and based on the results, to suggest the direction for improving future house redevelopment projects. To compare housing satisfaction, the two groups satisfaction in housing conditions, environment inside and outside of the complex, relationships with neighbors, investments, and expected profit were examined and analyzed. Donga Apartment at Jeonnong-dong, Dongdaemun-gu and Hyundai Apartment at Namgajwa-dong, Seodaemun-gu, both of which are in the northern area of Seoul, were selected as the subjects to be studied 130 resettled cooperative households and 159 general purchase households. A total 289 households participated in the questionnaire survey. In all variables except relationships with neighbors, the housing satisfaction of general purchase households appeared lower than that of resettled cooperative households. In conclusion, the success in general sales, which is a key part of house redevelopment projects, is essential for solving the problem with development fund to achieve the original goal of the redevelopment projects of providing pleasant residential environment to low-income brackets, and for this, it is necessary to build redevelopment apartment complexes with satisfactory residential environments. Then, housing satisfaction not only of resettled cooperative households but also of general purchase households will naturally go higher, and the gap in housing satisfaction between the two groups will become narrower.