Urban land reform in South Africa: Pointers for urban policy and planning

Huchzermeyer, Marie; Harrison, Philip; Charlton, Sarah; Klug, Neil; Rubin, Margot; Todes, Alison

doi:10.18820/2415-0495/trp75i1.10

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“…The latter should build their own houses on land provided by the state -similar to sites-and-services projects. See Huchzermeyer et al (2019Huchzermeyer et al ( ), pages 92-93. 85. lemanski (2014; also .…”

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Why low-income people leave state housing in South Africa: progress, failure or temporary setback?

Beier¹

2023

Environment and Urbanization

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The delivery of houses for homeownership to low-income urban dwellers has been a cornerstone of post-apartheid policies fighting both land and socioeconomic inequalities in South Africa. In this context, policy stakeholders and scholars have been puzzled by housing beneficiaries who leave their state houses, either selling or letting them. On the one hand, this might signal upward mobility where “leavers” successfully integrate into the housing market, climbing the next rung of the “property ladder”. On the other, it could indicate that “leavers” cannot afford to stay in their state houses and are consequently displaced to worse living conditions. However, due to methodological challenges, research on the experiences and perspectives of “leavers” is scarce. Based on narrative interviews with “leavers”, this article questions the progress/failure dichotomy. Instead, it argues that “leaving” could be construed as people-led reconfigurations of pro-poor housing policy – representing alternative, individually adapted but partly constrained pathways towards inclusion, 25 years after the end of apartheid.

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Section: Potts (2020)mentioning

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Why low-income people leave state housing in South Africa: progress, failure or temporary setback?

Beier¹

2023

Environment and Urbanization

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“…Acknowledging racial inequality through slow-paced backlogged housing policy does not challenge apartheid-era spatiality, especially when the state avoids confronting how apartheid denied a Black urbanization altogether, implicitly rejecting cities as Black spaces (Parnell and Crankshaw 2013). Such a denial is made patent by its refusal to propose urban reform (Huchzermeyer et al 2019). Instead, a de facto approach promoting the “elimination” of informal settlements, However, the actual approach, still impregnated with the idea that “formal” equals “development”, continues to promote the “elimination” of informal settlements, remains.…”

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Race and Space in the Postcolony: A Relational Study on Urban Planning Under Racial Capitalism in Brazil and South Africa

Melgaço

Coelho

2022

City & Community

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This article analyzes two planned cities—Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and Bloemfontein (South Africa)—to investigate connectivities across geographies and temporalities and reveal the role of urban planning in racial capitalism. Early works in urban sociology underscore the color line in producing differentiation in capitalist development. But color-blind analyses of capitalism have undermined the role of race in the urbanization process and formation of value—of places and people—and how the modern triad—colonial, racial, and capital—is deeply implicated in power modalities. Based on policy analysis, we historicize political choices in discuss urban planning and national developmentalist schemes after redemocratization that produced racial-spatial inequalities. We argue that color-blind urban policies still neglect the role of race in the production of Brazilian and South African cities under the guise of “planning innocence.” This discussion expands our understanding of urbanization and capital accumulation as a dialectical process of black dispossession and the protection of white property in the postcolony.

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“…A direct consequence of this is that, while urban real estate is one of the major assets in which wealth is vested within South Africa, 90-95% of South African wealth is owned by just 10% of the population, majority of whom are white population that were not negatively affected by segregationist policies. As a result, there are persistent severe high income inequalities in South Africa [17,23].…”

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Application of Copulas to Improve the Modeling of Housing Tenure and Affordability

Kabundu

Botha

Mbanga

et al. 2022

Front. Appl. Math. Stat.

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The tenure statuses made by households (renter-occupancy or owner-occupancy) are influenced by a multitude of factors, some of which cannot be directly measured. However, economists are still interested in knowing the relative severity and patterns of influence these factors have on housing tenure status. The purpose of this research was to determine the effect of assuming joint dependency between housing tenure and affordability on the model results. The effect of model-mis-specification on severity and relative importance of the explanatory variables was also assessed. Joint bivariate binary regression was applied to multi-year cross-sectional General Household Survey (GHS) data from Statistics South Africa (STATSA). An assumption of a univariate model when modeling both housing affordability and tenure led to model mis-specification, because most of the coefficients between the univariate and bivariate joint models were significantly different. Model mis-specification also led to significant differences in rankings of the levels of influence of the explanatory variables. Bivariate joint modeling with appropriate error-model copulas improved the model results. Older households that were above 49 years were consistently more likely to be owner-occupiers, and the household head age variable for older households was the most influential factor for housing owner-occupancy and affordability.

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Urban land reform in South Africa: Pointers for urban policy and planning

Cited by 9 publications

References 13 publications

Why low-income people leave state housing in South Africa: progress, failure or temporary setback?

Why low-income people leave state housing in South Africa: progress, failure or temporary setback?

Race and Space in the Postcolony: A Relational Study on Urban Planning Under Racial Capitalism in Brazil and South Africa

Application of Copulas to Improve the Modeling of Housing Tenure and Affordability

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