a critical evaluation on the concept of justice in planning process

financial resources of administration were limited with the resources transferred from
the budget.
Mass Housing Law no 2487 choice policies directed at the low-income groups
in order to decrease housing shortage as well as to revive market mechanism. With law
no 2985, on the other hand priority was given to market mechanisms as can be
understood from its giving importance to individual credit system. Likewise Housing
Development Administration declares that from its foundation to the year 2004 that it
provided financial support for about 1.1 million (1.070.507) houses and that it
completed the construction of 43.145 houses on its own land plots. 21.859 of these
credited houses were realized within the projects of Municipalities, 944.446 of them
within the cooperative applications, 10.987 within the credit for “martyr” ( ehit)
families, and 93.215 within the individual housing credits 41 .
According to information reached after a field survey done in 1992, the ratio of
the groups unaware of Housing Development Administration varies between 65% and
81% in gecekondu areas in the cities of Ankara, zmir, stanbul and Gaziantep. 42 In this
research, it is expressed that it is very surprising to see that a foundation aiming to solve
the housing problems of low-income groups is not known by the target groups. This
study emphasizes on the important effects of the demonstration opportunities not used
efficiently by the foundation ( enyapılı; 1995; 37-38). This also indicates that these
groups did not benefit from these credits which are used within at least four provinces.
It can be seen that credits were mostly used in secondary housing areas (Kele ;
1991) and most of the houses constructed by Housing Development Administration did
not target low and mid-income groups (see WEB-8). The fact that the foundation is
insufficient in meeting the housing needs of low-and mid income groups takes place
within the records of the foundation itself as well as in academic groups. 43 In this
context, it is very indefinite if mass housing project went beyond reviving the housing
and construction sector.
Values in the Table: 3.1. are significant for understanding the efficiency level of
the projects developed by Housing Development Administration for meeting the
housing needs in Turkey. As can be seen in this table, housing need in the year 1994 is
41 These gathered information are taken from the foundation’s web site WEB-8
42 enyapılı, T. (1995). Paper presented, involves field data of four provinces done in 1992 within the
scope of the project done under the coordination of METU, Faculty of Architecture, Housing Research
Center.
43 see for other arguements WEB-9.
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