Objective: Currently, housing poverty, as one of the most important dimensions of poverty in rural areas, has become a serious challenge for housing policymakers. Given the importance of this issue, the present study examines the driving and inhibiting factors affecting the development of rural housing; case study: villages in the central part of Ardabil Township.
Method: The research method in this study is qualitative in nature, applied in purpose, and descriptive‑survey in terms of data collection. The statistical population of the study includes rural households in the central part of Ardabil city. Using the Cochran formula, the sample size was determined to be 360 households, and the questionnaires were distributed among households in the study villages in proportion to the number of households, using a simple random method. The structural equation test in LISREL software and the Kruskal–Wallis test in SPSS were used to analyze the data.
Results: The physical‑environmental factor (with an effect coefficient of 0.952), economic factor (with an effect coefficient of 0.941), managerial factor (with an effect coefficient of 0.903), and socio‑cultural factor (with an effect coefficient of 0.897) are, respectively, the most important inhibiting factors affecting the development of rural housing. In addition, the physical‑environmental factor (with an effect coefficient of 0.918), managerial factor (with an effect coefficient of 0.905), economic factor (with an effect coefficient of 0.876), and socio‑cultural factor (with an effect coefficient of 0.866) are, respectively, the most important driving factors affecting the development of rural housing.
Conclusions: In terms of inhibiting factors, the three villages of Zardalo (score 169.12), Qara‑Tape (score 155.98), and Kol‑Tape (score 1148.14) have the highest number of inhibiting factors for rural housing development, while the three villages of Aqbalagh Aghajan Khan (score 79.02), Khoskeh‑Rood (score 84.15), and Anzab‑Olia (score 88.32) have the lowest number of inhibiting factors for rural housing development. In terms of driving factors, the three villages of Aqbalagh Aghajan Khan (score 157.22), Hakim Qeshlaqi (score 145.34), and Khoskeh‑Rood (score 133.96) have the highest driving factors, while the three villages of Kal Tepe (score 19.81), Tazeh‑e‑Kand Rezaabad (score 86.05), and Banafsheh Daragh (score 90.65) have the lowest driving factors for rural housing development.
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