Deprivation Analysis in Declining Inner City Residential Areas: A Case Study From Izmir, Turkey.

Table 13-14: The Distribution of Adequate Consumption of Meat-Fish-Chicken and The Debt Usage on

As another indicator of material deprivation, clothing is examined by the any assistance for clothing of
children especially in the school age, because school uniform is an obligation and an indispensable need as
clothing type. Therefore, acquiring type of school clothing of children is determined as the indicator within
the clothing domain. While the majority of the research families do not get any support for clothing their
children by the rate of 55.4 %, 15.4 percent of them express that they got aid for clothing from their
neighbors. Yet, during the interviews with families who prefer to buy first hand clothing for their children, it
is seen that they buy these clothes where they can find them in cheapest prices such as bazaar or Kemeralti.
Besides, they prefer to buy first hand clothing for their children because at least they do not wish to cause
their children to feel in deprivation.

Housing characteristics are the indicators, which provide information about both deprivation and
declining process at the same time. Regarding housing domain, home ownership, second home ownership,
housing rent price, age of the building, number of rooms, general physical conditions of the houses, type of
the building, problems of infrastructure, and any attempt to maintain the building are investigated.

However the indicator of homeownership is a sign of wealth generally, for this area, this indicator
contains different meanings. Property values are very low in the district and this provides an opportunity of
settling for the low-income families. This point can be evaluated as an indicator for decline of the area
generally. On the other hand, according to families interviewed, shelter as a basic need of humanity is the
most essential factor for guaranteeing to survive. Therefore, 72.3 % of the households in the research
population have their own homes. In another point of view, the district is attractive for the low-income
families who would like to have at least their own homes whatever the physical condition of it is.
Expectedly, 85.1 percent of the households within the research population have not second home. As
mentioned before, for these families, as the shelter is the basic need they get difficultly their homes in which
they live. So they have almost no chance to have a second home for the property value of it.

According to the findings of the research, housing rent prices are concentrated in the intervals between
50-150 YTL in generall. In this distribution, interval of 76-100 YTL has a high proportion with 27.8%.
Being parallel to property values, rent prices is quite low in the district. These prices are attractive to low-
income families, too. While rent prices and property values have a supportive role in reproducing the
deprivation, in another point of view these prices are not really low in terms of incomes of the residents.

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