The sites and services approach: a partial solution to South Africa's urban housing shortage

Racially discriminatory apartheid-era policies, population growth, and high unemployment have given South Africa a severe shortage of urban low-income housing. This thesis evaluates the sites and services approach as a means to reduce the housing shortage. The limited success of the new democratic government's efforts to provide the urban poor with formal low-income housing suggests that sites and services housing's reliance on self-help labor may reduce the housing shortage more effectively than formal housing. This study will assess the sites and services approach in terms of several basic factors. They include: government costs per housing unit, speed of construction, affordability for the poor, and the degree to which the method can produce a standard of housing that could be acceptable to the poor.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Geography

Department dc:contributor.department

Geography

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

1996

Author dc:creator

• Matthews, Peter John

• South Africa
• self-help
• sites and services
• housing
• population
• urban

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

etd-10012008-063141

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/44966