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It is generally recognized that the needs for the sense of community in apartment housing is of great importance. Therefore, various projects for community activation have been implemented by public and private sector. However the literatures show that there have been relatively few empirical research efforts to investigate the impact of the project for community activation in apartment housing on residents' satisfaction. This study aims to analyze the impact of the project on residents' satisfaction through the survey of residents consciousness and to suggest the policy directions for community vitalization based on the result. The impact of the project is investigated in terms of two aspects. One is to examine the change of residents' consciousness concerned to the sense of community prior and posterior to the project. The other is to compare the degree of the sense of community between residents affected or not by the project. The results are as follows. First, the project improved residents' the sense of the community regardless of the resident's demographic factors. Second, the project encouraged the degree of the residential satisfaction, participation in community activities, and activation of community programs, which means that the more activation of the sense of community, the more satisfaction of residents. Finally, the demand for community programs such as development of community-shared space, improvement of residential environment, and economic cooperative activities are highly recognized by the most of residents.