Evaluation of Housing Quality in the Urban Areas of Zanjan

Abstract

A house is a place for resting relaxation peace as well as security and has had this role since long time ago. Accordingly it is one of the most essential requirements of humankind. The current study aimed to evaluate the housing quality in urban areas of Zanjan. In the research quality index of housing was determined and the required data was derived from housing census of 1390.the study applied AHP, and TOPSIS models and for evaluation of housing quality VIKOR model was used. The result of analysis suggests that only 22.2 percent of urban areas of Zanjan had proper or approximately proper quality 40.7 percent had moderate quality and 37 percent had improper or approximately improper quality. In addition it was found there was a significant differences between housing qualities in various urban regions

Keywords

• quality housing
• zanjan
• vikor
• topsis
• ahp