일본의 고령자 주거 지원 정책에 관한 조망

Abstract

The considerable period of time is being passed after being enacted in 2001 the housing stability Act for the elderly in Japan, which has the contents such as arranging the rental housing registration system, establishing the housing support center for the aged, supplying the superior rental housing for senior citizens, adopting the lifetime employment rental system, and supporting the barrier free construction on the elderly-owned housing, in order to cope with the tendency of refusing for the elderly to enter the private rental housing. In 2011 following the enactment, there was the revision of this law. The revision was finished with, first, forming the registration system of a housing project targeting the service-care elderly, second, changing the standard for approval of the lifetime building lease, and third, abolishing the designation of a housing support center for the elderly. However, the elderly housing cannot be said to be stabilized with a series of this revision. Especially, as indicated in this study, there is a need to solve tasks on how defining the problems about the property of complex contract in a housing contract targeting the service-care elderly and about the legal property of lump sum payment in the future, and on whether or not legislating this in detail. And to prevent the failure in the law on a housing support for underprivileged group in our country, it is considered to be needed the closer and specific enforcement ordinance and the policy-based decision for the housing stability in the aged at home, and the elicitation of social consultation.