A Comparison of the Housing Experience of Healthy and Sick Individuals during COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case Study of Antalya, Turkey

Abstract

One of the ancient problems of humanity is epidemic and infectious diseases called "pandemic". According to the World Health Organization's definition in its 2019 report, this last pandemic caused by a new coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2 was named COVID-19. It has affected the lives of many people globally and changed their daily life routines. While the activities in common spaces within the scope of fight against the pandemic were restricted, work and education lives were moved to online environments. The fact that students and employees carried their activities to the home environment as much as possible have been increased the importance of working at home and made its operability questionable. The difficult pandemic period, in which various user profiles experience different problems through intense bans and lockdowns lays the groundwork for this study. In the process which is conducted with the survey method in Antalya scale due to limitations, one more perspective was being tried to brought to the discourses on the concept of "home", while it is aimed to identify the differences and similarities in daily experiences by making a comparison in which the home experience of chronic patients and healthy individuals are evaluated separately during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, the housing experiences of the participants in the residential spaces where all of them are healthy and where at least one sick individual lives were compared.