Although having no many papers concerning with the housing market problem in Japan which related to homeless people, I think this issue should not be overlooked. Yoshihiro Okamoto and et al. in Homelessness and housing in Japan (2004) argued in this issue that the central government in Japan didn’t take responsibility for housing. Almost of houses were built by private companies, whilst the amount of the government public housing is less and the criteria for the eligibility for public housing are so strict. Therefore, only few people can get accommodation in government public housing. However, there is still the other way to help workers to get accommodation, if the company employs them, because they can do through the company’s benefit program. That means, if they lost their job, they lost that benefit as well. The provision in Japan for people to get the accommodation is based on encouraging self-help to work. If they get work they will get the accommodation too.