2001
DOI: 10.1016/s0197-3975(00)00037-0
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Housing for the poor? Negotiated housing policy in South Africa

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“…One interviewee was of the opinion that changing from the capital subsidy to another form of subsidy would be very difficult, because not only are the systems designed for a capital subsidy, but officials would find it difficult to imagine another subsidy system. Some of the unintended consequences of a capital subsidy programme have been well documented (Huchzermeyer 2001(Huchzermeyer , 2010. These include the peripheral location of many subsidy houses, the technical nature of the development process and low levels of infrastructure access.…”
Section: The Capital Subsidy and The South African Policy Pathwaymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…One interviewee was of the opinion that changing from the capital subsidy to another form of subsidy would be very difficult, because not only are the systems designed for a capital subsidy, but officials would find it difficult to imagine another subsidy system. Some of the unintended consequences of a capital subsidy programme have been well documented (Huchzermeyer 2001(Huchzermeyer , 2010. These include the peripheral location of many subsidy houses, the technical nature of the development process and low levels of infrastructure access.…”
Section: The Capital Subsidy and The South African Policy Pathwaymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Because of time pressures and financial restrictions, most new houses were located in large developments on the outskirts of the cities (Huchzermeyer 2003). As a consequence, the project linked subsidy system has been said to sustain-or even reinforce-the existing patterns of spatial segregation and social inequality (Huchzermeyer 2001).…”
Section: The Public Sectormentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In South Africa, it has been argued that the housing policy process from the early 1990s to date has been dominated, not by civil society, critical academic researchers, or even by the thinking in international agencies, but by the dominant local technocratic elite (see Bond, 1997Bond, , 2000Lalloo, 1999;Huchzermeyer, 2001b). It must be acknowledged, however, that the technocratic approach in South Africa also serves a delivery-driven political agenda, through which the political elite sidelines social movements.…”
Section: Moving Beyond the State Of The Art?mentioning
confidence: 99%