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[Brooks]

I would like to know what people think about public and Co-op housing in Japan.
What are the good and bad points about it?
Does anyone know the websites for it in Japanese?

thanks.

[campestre]

its very good if u can get it, the longer you stay the cheaper the cleaning bill at the end is, a friend lives in one massive complex, its cool if can get it, must be married to a J national, or have a lower income than normal, every city office has an section that deals with all that

[Mike L.]

Do a search on "UDC." (Urban development Corporation)


That turns up about 5 threads where I've talked about my good experience with public housing in Japan...

Unfortunately the link is dead now...

[Iwantmyrightsnow]

Go here and look under housing. There are some links about public housing

http://www.generalunion.org/nova/faq.htm

[Mike L.]

I found it. It's changed!
:lol:

http://www.ur-net.go.jp/

[Sweetsee]

I think it rules. It's called kodan in Japanese. Search this site.

[Brooks]

thanks. In the future I am going to move. Maybe it will be in a year or two. I am thinking about living in either Kanazawa or the Kansai region.

What is the limit for income?

I have a Japanese wife, and she said that public housing isn`t always good because the units tend to be farther from train stations and that Japanese people have to do some kind of work at the housing place from time to time.

Basically, we want to save money. Obviously I like the idea that the deposit/key money is refundable.

I looked at a brochure for the units in Kanagawa, but they tend to be kind of expensive. I work with a guy who is 5 minutes away from an express stop, but he has to pay 120,000 a month for a 2LDK.

Another place I looked at was fine but too close to the railroad, so that would have been too noisy.
Currenly I live in a 3LDK, but in the future I may want a bigger place, since my wife has so much stuff and has more stuff at her mother`s house. I think 30 boxes!

[Iwantmyrightsnow]

[einsenundnullen]

Iwantmyrightsnow must mean national, prefectural, and municpal public housing. The stuff you'll see on the UDC site is the national public housing, I think. After chewing off Mike L's ear a few times, it turns out I already know a few folks in this sort of housing. Another acquaintance checked into municpal public housing and was unimpressed, iirc.

What's this about doing work around the place? I don't think my friends in kodans do that.

Chris

[inkansai]

Kodan revised its application procedures towards the end of last year. Tenants for new buildings are usually decided by a lottery system.

The conditions for rental vary from building to building. Some Kodan apartments are for families. Others are for singles, and they have introduced a house sharing category as well.

For some buildings you can pay the deposit in installments (the have a campaign running until March 31st) over three years. One big plus for me with Kodan was that I didn't need a japanese guarantor.

Some of the Kodan are a little "scary". It is really case by case.

[Mike L.]

I don't know what's available in Kanagawa but there seems to be a lot to say the least.

Here it is:

http://www.ur-net.go.jp/akiya/kanagawa/