A significant part of the housing stock in Turkey needs transformation because of disaster risk, dissatisfaction with the comfort conditions and sociological problems. Especially after 2003, the economic growth policies based on the construction sector accelerated the urban transformation activities. However, the necessity of questioning the housing policies of this period has emerged due to different housing problems occurring in the output products of urban transformation applications. The housing problem of Turkey, started in the 1950s, is continuing today. In this study, I handled the failure of housing policies to solve the housing gap in Turkey, as the main problem. This study aims to examine the housing problem that has emerged since the Republican Era in the context of periods and housing policies. This study is based on a literature review of the conceptual framework, an examination of the “housing policies in development plans, and a critical approach to the periods. In this context, the process from the proclamation of the republic to the present has been divided into five periods in the context of political policies. Firstly, the political economy of the different periods was put forward, and then the housing policies produced in the relevant period were examined. Then, the policies were critically approached, and the dormant causes of the housing problem were revealed. The periodic presentation of housing policies produced in the period between 1923-2019 and the criticism of why these policies did not bring solutions to housing problems of the period, is the original contribution of this study to the literature.