Men’s experiences of state sponsored housing in South Africa: emerging issues and key questions

Meth, Paula; Charlton, Sarah

doi:10.1080/02673037.2016.1219333

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“…There is a paucity of research on housing outcomes for men who lose ownership or rights to a state-subsidised property (Meth and Charlton, 2016), with anecdotal evidence revealing men's recourse to more vulnerable housing solutions including informal housing (# FG1, HF, 2014).…”

Section: Legal Title In a South African Context Of Gendered Inequality And Povertymentioning

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Gendered il/legalities of housing formalisation in India and South Africa

2018

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Urban interventions, such as state-led housing provision in India and South Africa, establish new legal landscapes for urban residents (formerly slum/informal dwellers), who become home owners, legal occupiers of spaces, ratespayers and visible citizens although not in ways that are necessarily contingent. These material-legal processes are also acutely gendered underscoring wider calls for a feminist approach to legal geographies. Informed by a comparative empirically driven study, this paper explores how in both contexts, urban interventions work to enhance gender equality through improving women's material shelter in the city, and introduce tenure security, often prioritising very poor women. Yet, their implementation is riddled with slippages as well as operating within a broader poverty-patriarchy nexus. This means that these legally framed benefits have occurred alongside complex and perverse outcomes including unemployment, gendered tensions and acute loss of privacy for some. Housing interventions produce uneven legal geographies, with persisting gendered inequalities and poverty distorting residents' abilities to benefit from material-legal interventions aimed at improving their lives.

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Section: Legal Title In a South African Context Of Gendered Inequality And Povertymentioning

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Gendered il/legalities of housing formalisation in India and South Africa

2018

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“…These are arguably significant drivers of local change, including the provision of state-provided housing, or the upgrading of communal facilities in poor informal settlements. Meth and Charlton (2016) and Charlton and Meth (2017) reveal how such housing shapes livelihood challenges and how it has mobility implications, positive impacts on identity and security, but with gendered distinctions around power, violence and sexuality. These insights inform an analysis of housing concerned with welfare, social change and poverty, i.e.…”

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African Cities and Collaborative Futures

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“…There is limited research examining the everyday social changes relating to housing formalisation and the expected achievement of social outcomes such as decency, dignity and community (see Meth and Charlton, 2016;Goebel, 2015 in Msunduzi, Ross' 2010 work in Cape Town and Brown-Luthango, 2016 on crime and housing formalisation in Cape Town). These softer, qualitative changes are harder to evaluate than quantiiable material deliverables such as shelter, walls, water, plot size and the reduction of backlogs, but both are interconnected.…”

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‘Marginalised formalisation’: an analysis of the in/formal binary through shifting policy and everyday experiences of ‘poor’ housing in South Africa

Meth

2020

International Development Planning Review

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This paper contributes to global debates over the in/formal binary through an analysis of the South African state's provision of formal housing to residents previously living informally or insecurely. Focusing on cases within the cities of eThekwini and Msunduzi, it uses a mix of empirical data from housing beneficiaries and government officials alongside an analysis of documents to examine the processes and experiences of housing formalisation. The paper makes two key contributions. The first is to argue for a stronger focus on the processes of dichotomisation of the in/formal binary. It illustrates the significance of a processual analysis by examining shifts in South African housing policy and residents' expectations of housing gain, noting a situation of hyperbole, where informal housing is regarded as unacceptable, to one of waning, where policy statements acknowledge a greater role for informality. The second contribution is to direct analysis to the idea of formal housing and processes of formalisation, as these have arguably received less attention in wider debates. The paper proposes the concept of marginalised formalisation to articulate both the shortcomings experienced by residents living in formal housing and also the misrepresentation of housing policy and government rhetoric of the benefits of formalisation. Marginalised formalisation is contextualised within ongoing urban poverty which frames this reality.

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Men’s experiences of state sponsored housing in South Africa: emerging issues and key questions

Cited by 23 publications

References 30 publications

Gendered il/legalities of housing formalisation in India and South Africa

Gendered il/legalities of housing formalisation in India and South Africa

At the city edge

‘Marginalised formalisation’: an analysis of the in/formal binary through shifting policy and everyday experiences of ‘poor’ housing in South Africa

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