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Shapurjee, Y
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Charlton, S
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2014-03-11T08:17:53Z |
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2014-03-11T08:17:53Z |
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2013-11 |
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Shapurjee, Y and Charlton, S. 2013. Transforming South Africa’s low-income housing projects through backyard dwellings: Intersections with households and the state in Alexandra, Johannesburg. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, vol. 28(4), pp 653-666 |
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1566-4910 |
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http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10901-013-9350-9
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http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7280
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Copyright: 2013 Springer. This is the Pre/post print version. The definitive version is published in Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, vol. 28(4), pp 653-666 |
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South Africa’s ‘housing programme’ transfers a fully-funded serviced site and house to qualifying beneficiaries with aims of progressively addressing poverty through homeownership. Despite delivering close to 3 million houses since 1994, informal housing persists, featuring even in some of these new neighbourhoods. This paper focuses on the intersection between a particular mode of informal housing, backyard dwellings, and state-subsidised low-income housing projects. Backyard dwellings arguably contradict state housing objectives by symbolising informality and disorder; a symptom of inadequacy that the housing programme strives to overcome. We consider first the views and experiences of landlords (owners of state-subsided houses) and tenants (occupiers of privately-provided backyard dwellings) in a section of Alexandra, Johannesburg. We then reflect on the potential of backyard accommodation within post-apartheid housing delivery, arguing that despite challenges, the phenomenon of planned, state-led infrastructure generating secondary accommodation represents an opportunity rather than an example of failed modernity. South Africa’s backyard dwellings resonate with similar forms of self-funded and managed rental stock across the global South. As a quick, flexible and regenerative housing asset, cumulative acceptance of such rental markets is necessary – along with viewing the driving actors as astute innovators in shelter and livelihood provision. |
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Springer Verlag |
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Workflow;12259 |
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Alexandra |
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Backyard dwelling |
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dc.subject |
Low-income housing |
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Rental housing |
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State infrastructure |
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dc.title |
Transforming South Africa’s low-income housing projects through backyard dwellings: Intersections with households and the state in Alexandra, Johannesburg |
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Article |
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Shapurjee, Y., & Charlton, S. (2013). Transforming South Africa’s low-income housing projects through backyard dwellings: Intersections with households and the state in Alexandra, Johannesburg. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7280 |
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Shapurjee, Y, and S Charlton "Transforming South Africa’s low-income housing projects through backyard dwellings: Intersections with households and the state in Alexandra, Johannesburg." (2013) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7280 |
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitation |
Shapurjee Y, Charlton S. Transforming South Africa’s low-income housing projects through backyard dwellings: Intersections with households and the state in Alexandra, Johannesburg. 2013; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7280. |
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