| Abstract | Industrial site housing has long been recognized as an important
housing delivery subsystem for the low-income people in most industrializing countries. Despite this awareness little was known about the form, structure, conditions and functions of this housing subsystem. This thesis then is an effort attempting to fill the above gap. Bangkok, as other cities of the world is faced with the notorious housing shortage problem. In spite of this shortage it is be lived that there are no street sleepers in the city. The fact is, there are a number of housing delivery systems, for the low-income people, which are official and unofficial, that help to stem the problem and among
others, industrial site housing subsystem is one of them. The major objectives of this thesis were; basically to describe the
industrial site housing subsystem, to compile a framework for improvement, make recommendations to the housing policy makers who can incorporate it in their overall approach toward solving the low-income housing problem and to serve as a reference on which housing decisions can be
based in Bangkok and Thailand.
In this task the author carried a two and half weeks field research to a mass data on the nature of the industrial site housing population, housing type, costs and structural conditions, site functional community facilities, workers housing aspirations and attitudes and management
housing attitudes. The methods used to collect the data included questionnaires for close ended answers, observation sheet, photography, and survey of the scanty existing literature.
Data analysis was done with the help of computer. The presentation techniques included site layout sketches, housing plan and slides. The salient findings of this study are that; firstly, industrial site housing is composed of single roomed multi -storey dormitories, single
family multi-storey apartments and single detached housing units. Secondly the structural status of the housing is quite sound and the main building
materials are concrete, wood and masonry for walls and galvanized steel, ceramic clay titles, asbestos and concrete for roofs. Thirdly the accommodation space in the housing is characterized by overcrowding in the multi
storey dormitories but adequate and comfortable room in the multi-storey single family apartments and single family detached housing units.
Fourthly the housing utilities and facilities though communally used are quite up to date, while the functional community facilities like shops, dispensaries, library, playground require some improvement. Fifthly in
dustrial site housing is occupied mainly by low-income, rural originating single and under 35 years of age workers. Sixth a majority of the resident population is satisfied irrespective of the overcrowding.
Seventh two thirds of workers have problems with the housing which are
however technically solvable.
Eighth one third of the industrial
owners have plans in the pipeline to expand the housing.
Nineth the
housing investment per worker is quite low but in some instances it
surpasses the public housing investment.
Finally the most pressing improvement to be undertaken is the
decongestion of the excessive existing occupancy rate per room, this
will avert the impending danger of the rapid spread of any contiguous
diseases. |