More than half of the 288 households told to evacuate 10 condominium complexes built with falsified quake-resistance data were still living in the defective buildings as of Thursday, the government said Friday.

And of the 101 households that have vacated, only 12 have moved into the public housing provided for them, the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry said.

Public housing remains unpopular mainly because the units are small and far from the residents' former homes, the ministry said.

The ministry said it has confirmed that all but 40 of the 187 stragglers eventually intend to leave and that eviction efforts are continuing.

"There are numerous reasons why people have not moved out, but municipalities are working hard to visit and talk to each of them," infrastructure minister Kazuo Kitagawa said. "We hope we can have people cooperate and move out of the dangerous condominiums soon."

Meanwhile, the ministry added a hotel in Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture, to the list of structures compromised by false quake-resistance data provided by disgraced architect Hidetsugu Aneha.

With the addition of the Sun Hotel Kokubu, 89 condo complexes and hotels in 18 prefectures are now known to have been built with Aneha's false data, making them vulnerable to damage in major earthquakes, it said.

Of the 89 buildings, 20 condo complexes and four hotels are to be torn down, according to a Kyodo News survey.