The vexatious question of rental housing

Dewar, David

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“…Grant (2008) identifies how, when households faced increasing vulnerability such as the shocks of retrenchments and high inflation in Zimbabwe, even lodgers sublet their limited space to 'provide some insulation' (Grant, 2008:83). another, and profits are ploughed into the construction of more rooms for rent (Dewar, 1997). Over time, the household can choose to expand into the additional rooms (ibid).…”

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“…Schlyter (2003) Therefore, it seems that, contrary to regulations, many occupants of rooms and spaces sacrificed the physical asset of living space in favour of another asset, particularly an additional income stream 102 for stability purposes or otherwise, or in other cases to invest in growing their physical asset of housing over the long term (Dewar, 1997). 103 In some cases, occupants compared their situation to those around them and found it favourable space-wise (Schlyter, 2003).…”

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“…Studies showed most participants to have limited interest in settling in the locale they were currently resident in (Andreasen, 1989;City of Johannesburg, 2007;IRIN, 2011), and various South African studies showed patterns of circulatory migration to be strong (Dewar, 1997;Greenburg & Polzer, 2008;Mabin, 1990;UN-Habitat, 2003). This contributed to residents making sacrifices in their current accommodation, investing back 'home' (Poulsen, 2010;UN-Habitat, 2003), and placed flexibility requirements on the accommodation in the city in terms of the number of people able to be accommodated at any one time (Grant, 2007).…”

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Accommodation and Tenuous Livelihoods in Johannesburg’s Inner City: the ‘Rooms’ and ‘Spaces’ Typologies

Mayson

Charlton

2015

Urban Forum

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! 'Rooms' and 'spaces' are two closely linked forms of accommodation where the unit of occupation and exchange is a portion of a larger building or property, within which services and facilities are shared. 'Rooms' and 'spaces' in the inner city represented two of very few typologies research participants were aware of that allowed them access to the livelihood opportunities Johannesburg had to offer. Through participant observation and qualitative interviews this study explores two buildings featuring informal rooms and spaces and one building featuring formal rooms and spaces in Johannesburg's inner city. While formal rooms represented the most stable support to those specific occupants, there were several 'barriers to entry' including the prerequisite of a stable income. There was much to be learnt from the flexibility and diversity of rooms and spaces on the informal market, which enabled occupants to cope with insecure livelihood opportunities. The research demonstrated the incredible resilience of occupants in the face of an extreme shortage of affordable accommodation in Johannesburg's inner city (Tissington, 2013). However, the findings suggested an adverse relationship between accommodation and livelihoods demonstrated by the three 'forms' of rooms and spaces, where the only form available to people with the least secure livelihoods is that which, in turn, subjects them to the greatest insecurity.

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Accommodation and Tenuous Livelihoods in Johannesburg’s Inner City: the ‘Rooms’ and ‘Spaces’ Typologies

Mayson

Charlton

2015

Urban Forum

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“…Several studies express concern about the potential for downward raiding, fearing that poor beneficiaries could fall prey to offers of cash, resulting in middle-class ownership of assets designed for the poor (e.g. Bond and Tait, 1997;Dewar, 1997;Marx, 2007;Robins, 2002), but no academic discussion or evidence demonstrates whether such processes actually exist. South Africa's state-subsidised housing: The 'problem' of resales…”

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Hybrid gentrification in South Africa: Theorising across southern and northern cities

Lemanski

2014

Urban Studies

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This paper reveals how urban theories traditionally rooted in northern cities and academies are challenged and redeveloped by southern perspectives. Critiques of urban theory as narrowly northern (or Anglo-American) have recently emerged, spawning the comparative urbanism movement that calls for urban theories to be open to the experiences of all cities. Using the example of the sale of state-subsidised houses in South Africa, this research uses two parallel concepts, gentrification and downward raiding, to challenge the northern empirical focus of urban theory. Despite describing similar processes of urban class-based change, the concepts are rarely considered analogous, entrenched in divergent empirical contexts and academic literatures. While gentrification debates largely reference the northern central city, downward raiding is reserved for the southern 'slum'. In contrast, this research develops 'hybrid gentrification' as a concept and methodological approach that demonstrates how non-northern urban experiences can and should create and refine urban theory.

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“…The informal rental market has largely been ignored in official South African housing policy (Dewar, 1997), as it has been in other developing countries (Watson, 1996), because to incorporate it may imply an acceptance of shacks. Indeed, the national housing department seems to be reluctant to accept any form of informal housing, as this would contradict the promises made in the mid-1990s by the first ANC government to provide all of the poor with houses (Watson and McCarthy, 1998).…”

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Backyard shacks: The relative success of this housing option in Port Elizabeth

Morange¹

2002

Urban Forum

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The vexatious question of rental housing

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Accommodation and Tenuous Livelihoods in Johannesburg’s Inner City: the ‘Rooms’ and ‘Spaces’ Typologies

Accommodation and Tenuous Livelihoods in Johannesburg’s Inner City: the ‘Rooms’ and ‘Spaces’ Typologies

Hybrid gentrification in South Africa: Theorising across southern and northern cities

Backyard shacks: The relative success of this housing option in Port Elizabeth

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