Social sustainability and the welfare of future generations, and today's trend has been dramatically used in architecture design. Despite the different perspectives of sustainable development and its different perceptions, the principle of balance between the three dimensions of environmental, social and economic consensus is agreeable to everyone. Social sustainability approach to address the basic needs of people, equity and physical and social wellbeing, promotion of creativity and development of human capacity, the preservation of cultural and biological heritage, the sense of association with history and the environment, and being democratic as well as improving the living conditions of social welfare, body and passion bring residents. It should be considered that in many cases, the most important factor affecting the level of satisfaction of a person from residence in the neighborhood, housing and its environmental conditions, therefore, in the study of housing, it is worth considering the principles of social sustainability. Low-income groups in the community have always been neglected due to lack of proper residential and social facilities. Housing studies based on social sustainability patterns, with regard to the basic factors of social sustainability, can play a role in the low-income housing population. The question now is what the role of social sustainability in low-income housing is and how this approach can be used in housing studies. To answer this question, the issue of housing and the recognition of sustainable development, principles, strategies and social sustainability have been investigated first. Finally, by examining external samples and literature sources, the social sustainability approach was considered as a model for considering low-income housing in order to include appropriate factors such as social justice, education promotion and physical well-being for low income families.