Urban Renaissance Agency

It was founded in 1955 as the Japan Housing Corporation (Nihon Jūtaku Kōdan) to address the country's housing shortage due to post-war urbanisation. It was combined with other government organisations including the Japan Regional Development Corporation and semi-privatized in 2004 during the administration of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (2001–06). The agency gave rise to the development of Danchi housing found in urban areas of post-war Japan. == Residents ==

According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, public housing in Japan has priority admission, particularly those in need of stable housing, such as: • Elderly households • Households with disabilities • Households with significantly low income • Households raising children (including single-mother and single-father households, households with small children, and those with a high degree of housing distress) • Young couples • Households of victims of domestic violence • Households that have become unable to reside in their previous homes due to crime • Households of Japanese descendants remaining in China, etc. ==References==