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Severe damage to houses was caused by Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Furthermore, people had to evacuate the area in which the nuclear power plant accident occurred. Victims were given long-term sheltering over a vast area. Six years after the disaster, resettlement is still a challenge. The construction of prefabricated housing by the public sector near the damaged area was the main method of providing temporary housing after the disaster. However, the difficulty of constructing prefabricated housing because of a lack of space and capacity to supply all with homes resulted in the provision of new temporary housing, ‘Private Rental Housing As Temporary Public Housing’. In this study, the problems of evacuees’ circumstances and the uncertainty of recovery are examined. First, the temporary housing provision plan and its characteristics are explained. Second, the results of a questionnaire survey completed by 10,082 families are presented. Special attention is paid to the status of the evacuees 1 year after the disaster by analysing their housing, level of damage, attitude towards nuclear damage, change of work and economic conditions, transformation of family forms and outlook for the future. The results show that evacuees living in private rental housings were in better conditions compared to those living in prefabricated housings. However, many of the evacuees have lost or changed their employment in the new settlement due to moving to long distance from their previous locations. Furthermore, they were forced to live in a new environment and had to adapt to it. Thus, this sheltering process may not be aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is important that a provision plan should include life recovery processes and assist their adaptation to a new environment. |
