Iwate Miyagi Fukushima disaster public housing Rent more than doubled Rent also rises March 9 5:24
Nine years before the Great East Japan Earthquake, NHK conducted a questionnaire survey on the victims of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, and found that one out of three survivors who live in the disaster public housing or lived in the past. Respondents said their rents were higher than they were when they first moved in. 10% of those who raised the price more than doubled accounted for 10% of the total, and others reported that the price rose more than three times.
From December to January last year, NHK conducted a questionnaire survey of more than 4,000 people, including victims of Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima, as well as evacuees from the nuclear accident, and received responses from 48%, or 1965.
A questionnaire asked 908 people, both those who lived in public housing and those who lived in the past, about whether their rents had changed compared to when they first moved in, and 35% said that their prices had risen. I answered.
Disaster public housing is occupied by people who have lost their homes due to tsunamis or earthquakes or have been evacuated due to a nuclear accident, so rents have been reduced or exempted in consideration of the victims. The rent is determined every year.
Looking at the responses to the questionnaire by price increase range, 19% from $ 1.1 to less than 1.5 times, 6% from $ 1.5 to less than 2 times, 5% from $ 2 to less than 2.5 times, and $ 2.5 to less than 3 times 1%, more than 3 times 4%, more than double the initial tenants accounted for 10% of the total.
In addition, when asked in multiple answers what they were doing or considering in order to cover the rise in rent, 67% of the respondents said that "cutting down on living expenses" was the most common, followed by "exit from disaster-owned public housing." And "increase in working hours" were both 8%, and 5% said "debt."
According to a free statement, a man in his 60s in Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture, said, "The rent was gradually revised, but it has more than doubled after two years.
It is not convinced that the rent was suddenly raised just because of the municipality's thoughts. "
A woman in her 50s in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, wrote, "The more I work, the more my rent increases in the next year, and I'm worried about my future life. I'm putting up on saving my living expenses and going to the hospital." Did.
Victims "where do you live?"
In the free text of the questionnaire, a number of other voices were confused about raising the rent of public housing for disasters.
A man in his 60s in Tagajo City, Miyagi Prefecture said, "The rent has risen by 30,000. It has been six years, but the rent has reached 110,000. I do not know why my salary has not changed No, I want to crush it, but I can't do it because I don't have a deposit. I didn't expect public housing to go this way. "
A woman in her 70s in Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, said, "The uneasy thing is that a small amount of pension earns a little income and the rent rises. When I get warmer, I will work with the extra amount alone. "
A woman in her 50s in Sendai spelled out, "Where do rents go up and where do you live?
Expert "Examine the ideal system"
Professor Rei Kimura of Hyogo Prefectural University, who specializes in social psychology who analyzed the questionnaire, stated, It is a big problem that we have to cut down on expenses, etc. I think that disaster public housing is essentially a contradictory state to stabilize the lives of the victims. "
Then, "In this case, raising the rent will reduce the money for living, and there is a possibility that the number of victims who have to go out of the disaster public housing without rebuilding their lives or housing will increase. It is necessary to consider how to establish a system that can rebuild your life. "