Resident’s attitude towards housing development under the new urban agenda in mueang Thanyaburi

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the coherence of the operations and assess the resident’s attitude towards the operations in housing and community development in Thanyaburi, Pathum Thani Province, based on the concept of the New Urban Agenda that contains five indicators of Habitat III Policy Paper. It used both qualitative and quantitative methods of study, including; document analysis; questionnaire survey in 27 sample communities. The results of the study found that the operations in housing and community development “moderately” comply with the indicators of UN-Habitat’s New Urban Agenda at the policy level. It was noted that the
inconsistency was caused by the lack of understanding by the local authorities on the meaning and role of the operations, as well asthe roles of their agencies in the operations to achieve the goals according to the New Urban Agenda. Therefore, the goals and methods of implementation in accordance with the New Urban Agenda have not been known, despite having set up a provincial working group. The key point is that housing development plans have not yet been identified as part of the urban development plan. This requires a study to analyze the provincial demand and supply of housing in order to propose a policy that will lead to the formulation of measures and action plans to balance the housing market as the concept of “enabling housing market to work”.