Housing policy in the apartheid period was a central tool of social, spatial and economic
exclusion, and contributed much to the race-based exclusionary character of South African …

Theoretically, the evident demand for housing in growing cities, particularly in the Global
South would result in vertical consolidation of properties. However, unlike places in Latin …

Integrating the poor in the city after apartheid is an important housing policy theme in South
Africa, dictated by the need for equity and social change in a democratic political …

The premise of the incremental housing approach is that low-income households can, and
have, transformed their rudimentary housing into substantial dwellings over time. This …

Despite the initial failure of the self-help, incremental housing approach internationally, it
has recently been revived as a way of addressing housing backlogs in developing countries …

Through a series of intricate informal processes and human-centric institutional
arrangements, beneficiaries of South African government-subsidized housing force formally …

Abstract Integrated Development Planning (IDP) is one of the key tools used by the South
African Government to deal with its developmental role in the post-apartheid era. In contrast …

The transition from shack to formal human settlements can be very traumatic. It means
abandoning old habits, lifestyles, relationships and forming new ones. The extent to which …

Habitat-International is a publication series of the department of International Urbanism
(Städtebau-Institut) at the faculty of architecture and planning at University of Stuttgart. The …

This paper explores whether current South African housing policy facilitates the potential of
subsidised housing to become housing assets for its recipients. Due to apartheid policies …