Author : Ahmed Abdul Moanem Al Qattan

Constantly changing shall be occur within the family’s housing requirements over time, as a result of changing its
scope, personnel needs, income threshold or economic conditions, or as a result of increasing technical developments, the need generated to meet these requirements, to make changes in the number of rooms in dwelling, increase or decrease, or in its uses. In that case, the family resort either to change the dwelling with another be appropriate to their needs, and this exhausts materially and socially, or to adapt this dwelling with its emerging needs. It was therefore necessary to study all aspects of housing in these countries in order to reform housing policies in order to meet all the housing needs of its users, and how to address the aspects of the housing crisis in the framework of construction, physical and urban renewal. This study shall discuss Social Housing”which is one of the most important axis of Housing”and its objectives and functional needs and types to reach the criteria to control Social Housing and dimensions that must be taken into consideration when starting to design those social housing projects.

Keywords: Housing, Social Housing, Community, Human Needs

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.9, No.6 (Nov/Dec 2019)