This article is about the short-lived space standards for urban housing in Turkey. Introduced in the 1960s, the standards were a crucial part of a policy that aimed to balance the housing demand and the development agenda by steering the market toward affordable housing. The Turkish state was not a significant actor in housing production. Nor had it ever before substantially intervened to regulate the housing market. The standards, however, exemplified a bold move stemming from a welfare and planning perspective. Although standards’ influence was curbed, the policy is important to address as it aimed to remedy a problem that continues today, namely, the disjunction between the housing provision and the means of the middle- and low-income groups. While a sixty-year-old policy does not provide immediate answers for today, it does offer insight into the history and context of some of the current housing issues.

本文介绍了土耳其城市住房的短期空间标准。该标准于1960年代推出，是旨在通过引导市场转向负担得起的住房来平衡住房需求和发展议程的政策的重要组成部分。土耳其不是住房生产的重要参与者。之前也从未进行过干预来规范房地产市场。但是，这些标准体现了从福利和计划角度出发的大胆举动。尽管抑制了标准的影响，但该政策对于解决目前仍然存在的问题（即住房供应与中等收入和低收入群体的手段之间的脱节）具有重要意义，因此必须加以解决。尽管已有60年历史的政策无法立即解决今天的问题，