Model of Sustainable Housing Management

Abstract

Individuals in the community awareness about the environment and conservation is very important now. Communities exposed to pollution, and environmental destruction are difficult to avoid. The concept of sustainable settlements is one of the solutions to overcome these problems. Various findings and innovations such as the concept of water resources planning, the concept of waste management, environmental planning and sustainable concepts has been implemented. But the new finding sand innovations are not implemented integrally in a residential area so that its function is not optimal to apply in a community of sustainable settlements. This research aimed to develop a model of environmental management of sustainable housing. The concept of sustainability does not only apply to estate planning, but also in the management process. The hypothesis of this research is that the application of the model would not be optimal if the management does not understand the character and its social system. So the roles and responsibilities of the people involved in them can be well planned. In this research, required the implementation of co-operation with housing managers, housing residents, local governments and national public housing companies. Research methodology begins with a survey, analysis and resulted in the finding. The finding of this research is applied to the study area to test models of housing management.