Through a series of intricate informal processes and human-centric institutional arrangements, beneficiaries of South African government-subsidized housing force formally registered properties into informality. Sandile Mbatha explores the concept of informality in relation to how such beneficiaries challenge predominant understandings of property relations. These practices are embedded in complex urban tenure dynamics that prevail in post-colonial societies; societies, in which the state's imposition of predominantly western forms of tenure and property rights ignore the anthropological nature of housing.
Price: $55.00
Pages: 244
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
13 September 2022
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837662795
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning
Sandile Mbatha is a senior manager at eThekwini Municipality's Research and Policy Advocacy Department and works on establishing alignments between local action and global objectives relating to Sustainable Development Goals. He has more than a decade of work experience in the public sector, academia and non-governmental sector through developing and implementing programmes for low income urban and peri-urban communities.
Frontmatter 1
Editorial 2
Contents 5
Abbreviations and Acronyms 7
Chapter 1: Introduction 9
Chapter 2: Conceptualizing the Housing Discourse 35
Chapter 3: Institutional Responses to the Housing Need in South Africa 59
Chapter 4: Embeddedness of Transaction Practices in Culture, Society, Law and Property Rights 79
Chapter 5: Context of State of Housing in Low-Income Settlements in eThekwini Municipality 117
Chapter 6: Perspectives on Informal Housing Transactions from above: State Actors, Practitioners and Academics 127
Chapter 7: Perspective on Informal Housing Transaction from below: Beneficiaries and Community Actors 163
Chapter 8: Interpretation of Findings 199
Chapter 9: Conclusions and Recommendations 221
References 223
