Residential Satisfaction in Housing Community of Lalitpur

Abstract

This research assess the residential satisfaction of people living in two Housing community of Lalitpur on physical features of houses, planning of community and its neighborhood. Data was collected through structured and unstructured questionnaire using Kobo Toolbox. Descriptive analysis and cross tabulation was done for data analysis to find in which community residents were more satisfied and what are the factors that influenced them to choose that particular community. To analyze the residential satisfaction, 3 attributes were considered as; satisfaction with characteristics of individual housing unit, satisfaction with neighborhood environment and satisfaction with facility and convenience provided by the housing community. The findings of overall satisfaction shows that residents were fairly satisfied with their respective housing community though satisfaction level of resident of Cityscape was comparatively high with respect to residents of civil homes. Among the 3 categories, overall satisfaction was found same among satisfaction with characteristics of individual housing unit and satisfaction with neighborhood environment with mean score of 3.86 each and satisfaction with facility and convenience provided by the housing community was found least with mean score of 3.53.