The introduction of homeownership for black people in urban South Africa coincided with
attempts to increase mortgage finance to black households and to households in former …

ABSTRACT Focusing on Cape Town, this article investigates how financialization unfolds in
the South African housing market. I use a mixed method that combines in-depth field …

This book investigates the relationship between mining, mine closure and housing policy in
post-apartheid South Africa, using concepts from new institutional economics and …

'Affordable housing'for Johannesburg's growing middle class is a developmentalist
imperative and potentially lucrative market. However, few greenfield developers have found …

The creation of mine settlements became a common practice between 1950 and 1980.
These mining towns were seen as places of permanent settlement. This permanency …

Historically, research on urban socio-economic trends, processes and policies in Africa, and
the global South more broadly, has focused on urban spaces and citizens that represent the …

Urban and reform is a relatively under-researched and-considered element of the broader
land-reform debate. This article reviews some of the key positions that have been explicated …

In the 1990s, housing prices started increasing rapidly in many parts of the world, making it
difficult for many in the middle and lower classes to purchase housing and leading to a …

As the housing bubble burst in overheated property markets around the world, South Africa's
so-called 'affordable housing market'appeared to be bucking the trend. From 2010 …

The term “housing ladder” refers to the phenomenon of people moving from one housing
type to another according to changing demands of different life stages. This phenomenon is …