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Research outputs: HOUSING DELIVERY
2021 The location of social housing in Cape Town: separating fact from fiction
The clash over what constitutes the 'inner-city' of Cape Town exemplifies a crucial fact about social housing: It is all about location. Soc...
2020 Gaps in the design and implementation of the Gauteng housing allocation process
Housing allocation continues to be a concern, not only in South Africa, but also globally, in contexts where public housing programmes have ...
Download this report2020 Upgrading dense informal settlements by building upwards: lessons from an informal settlement in Durban, South Africa
Approximately 287 000 households live in 581 informal settlements across eThekwini Municipality and the numbers are growing. This translates...
Download this report2020 Lived realities of urban peripheries: building infrastructures of change
Apartheid was enacted spatially through infrastructural investment to support institutionalised racism and class inequality. Post-apartheid ...
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