The right to adequate housing is of fundamental importance, closely linked to the accessing, enjoyment of other economic, social and cultural rights. This consists of the individual’s right to dignified standard of living ...
Homeownership is widely advocated and believed to contribute towards economic activity, employment, wealth creation, economic, political, and neighbourhood stability and financial independence. Despite government’s ...
Founded in 1928, Iscor was intended to make South Africa self sufficient in the
provision of steel while providing employment for poor whites. Economic
considerations prevailed when Iscor began replacing expensive white ...
The housing problem in South Africa is complicated by the
cultural diversity and the rapidly changing nature of the
population. This indicates a need for research to help to
determine "what appropriate housing is" for ...
This study was conducted within the pressing social conditions of human vulnerability manifested in a worsening situation of homelessness which forces homeless people into a deplorable life in the inner city of Tshwane. ...
This dissertation draws on the perceptions of government officials and residents to investigate the response of government to the effects of increases in population on the provision of housing in Freedom Park, Soweto. The ...
There is no historiography on Durban coloureds . This work is an attempt to change that . This dissertation is an urban study of a small coloured community in Greenwood Park (GWP) during the apartheid era - a study in which ...
The study sought to establish the main drivers and associated consequences of rural -urban migration in Atteridgeville. The study used a qualitative method to gather in-depth insights into the phenomenon of rural-urban ...
Bahir Dar is one of the rapidly growing Ethiopian cities characterized by the rise of informal settlements. The expansion of spontaneous neighbourhoods in Bahir Dar is, among other things, conditioned by land management ...
South Africa has a social housing delivery problem, where, despite all mechanisms, efforts
and resources (including policies, enabling legislation and social housing production
inputs such as planning regimes, guidelines ...
Mthembu, Ntokozo Christopher(Centre for Civil Society - University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2007)
Umlazi is part of the townships that form the new city demarcation of eThekwini Municipality (“eThekwini ”) as they were redrawn after 2000 local government elections and implemented in terms of the Municipal Structures ...