Social housing: bridging or reinforcing spatial inequality?

SOURCE: HSRC Review
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2021
TITLE AUTHOR(S): A.Teagle
KEYWORDS: HOUSING, INEQUALITIES, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT: Impact Centre (IC), Impact Centre (PRESS), Impact Centre (CC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 12832
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/19432
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/19432

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Abstract

In a recent report mapping social housing projects across South Africa's seven largest cities, HSRC researchers found that there has been a drift to the periphery, far from economic activity. This trend appears to contradict the government's ambition to encourage upward mobility and urban integration through social housing.