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Informal Transactions of Low Income Houses in South Africa A Case Study of eThekwini Municipality Sandile Mbatha
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Mbatha, Sandile <p>Sandile Mbatha, Universität Stuttgart, Deutschland</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Habitat-International: Schriften zur internationalen Urbanistik
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Informality.
- Housing.
- Markets.
- Culture.
- Citizenship.
- Architecture.
- City.
- Social Inequality.
- Urban Studies.
- Urban Planning.
- Africa.
- Sociology.
- Local Subjects:
- Informality.
- Housing.
- Markets.
- Culture.
- Citizenship.
- Architecture.
- City.
- Social Inequality.
- Urban Studies.
- Urban Planning.
- Africa.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Mbatha, Informal Transactions of Low Income Houses A Case Study of eThekwini Municipality
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2022
- Biography/History:
- 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.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Doctoral Thesis Universität Stuttgart 2018
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783839462799
- 3839462797
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