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Housing Issue in South Africa
SOUTH AFRICAN HOUSING LITERATURE, 1999-2003
Prepared as a briefing document for delegates to the 2003 Housing Summit

Compiled by Dr Marie Huchzermeyer Postgraduate Housing Programme, Wits University

Commissioned by the Department of Housing, Pretoria Funded by the Housing Finance Resource Programme

February 2003

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Housing policy 1.1 Policy commentary 1.2 Policy evaluations Governance 2.1 Government capacity for housing delivery 2.2 Housing institutions 2.3 Disaster mitigation Housing finance 3.1 Policy commentaries 3.2 Banks' views 3.3 Subsidies and beneficiary contributions 3.4 Housing finance gaps 3.5 Housing Finance and HIV/AIDS RDP/ project-linked housing 4.1 Evaluations/critiques 4.2 Incremental housing research 4.3 Housing quality 4.4 Community participation 4.5 Beneficiary views 4.6 Role of contractors 4.6 Housing and services 4.7 Housing market Hostel upgrading Social housing 6.1 Shifts in the sector 6.2 Social housing policy commentaries 6.3 Co-operatives 6.4 Governance/management 6.5 Rental 6.6 HIV/AIDS in social housing 6.7 Tenant insurance 6.8 Design of social housing 6.9 Social housing and urban regeneration Alex Renewal Project and others) Informal settlements 7.1 informal settlement strategies 7.2 Intervention approaches and commentaries 7.3 Tenure approaches 7.4 Impact of intervention 7.5 Children in informal settlements 7.6 Perceptions of informal settlements 3 3 4 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 9 10 10 10 10 10 11 11 11 11 11 12 12 12 12 12 12 13 13 13 13 14 14 14 14

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Rural Housing Social Issues 9.1 Urban poverty/urbanisation of poverty 9.2 Special needs 9.3 Gender and housing 9.4 Social differentiation 9.5 Health and housing 9.6 Migration 9.7 Rental tenure 9.8 Tenure security 9.10 Housing rights 9.11 Crime and secutiry 9.12 Overcrowding 9.13 Economic empowerment 9.14 Homelessness 9.15 HIV/AIDS - understanding the reality 9.16 HIV/AIDS and the housing sector/
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