Editing Public housing (section)

=== Japan ===
{{Main|Danchi}}
{{nihongo|Danchi|団地|literally "group land"}} is the [[Japanese language|Japanese]] word for a large cluster of apartment buildings or houses of a particular style and design, typically built as public housing by government authorities.

The Japan Housing Corporation (JHC), now known as the [[Urban Renaissance Agency]] (UR), was founded in 1955. During the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, the JHC built many {{lang|ja-Latn|danchi}} in suburban areas to offset the increasing housing demand during the [[Japanese economic miracle|post-World War II economic boom]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Tsutomu |last=Yamashita |title=Showa 30s Movie Revives Interest in Danchi |work=[[The Asahi Shimbun]] |page=15 |date=9 December 2007 }}</ref> It introduced the Japanese [[salaryman]] to a life around the [[nuclear family]] in contrast with the multi-generation homes before the war.<ref name="NYT 2017-11-30">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/asia/japan-lonely-deaths-the-end.html |title=A Generation in Japan Faces a Lonely Death |author=Norimitsu Onichi |date=30 November 2017 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=26 August 2019 |archive-date=15 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200515201019/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/asia/japan-lonely-deaths-the-end.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The rent payment for a {{lang|ja-Latn|danchi}} is much cheaper than that of an apartment or a mortgage, but for a public {{lang|ja-Latn|danchi}} the prospective tenant must usually participate in a lottery to be assigned an open apartment. Residents in UR danchi do not have to pay key money or contract renewal fees, making the residences cheaper than comparable housing even if the monthly rents are equivalent.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brasor |first1=Phillip |author2=Masako Tsubuku |url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20110906ht.html |title=There are advantages to choosing UR property |work=[[The Japan Times]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018211644/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20110906ht.html |url-status=dead |date=6 September 2011 |archive-date=18 October 2012 |page=10 }}</ref>