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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Formal housing"”.
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Housing the Gap: Provision Structures and Public Policy on Formal Housing Development in Indonesia's Evolving Market
Contains fulltext : 325289.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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The Informalization of Formal Housing Projects in the Global South: Policy Failure or Counterhegemonic City-making?
Faced with the rampant expansion of informal settlements in cities, many national governments across the global South have instituted formal social housing programs. In turn, however, many State-led housing projects, aimed at curtailing informal settlements, themselves informalize. How and why does …
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Women's access to land and housing post-1994 in the informal settlements at Ficksburg in the Free State South Africa
… that inhibit women from getting access to formal housing and land in Ficksburg in the Free State province of South Africa. The study sought to substantiate the hypothesis that inequalities within South African societies have been aggravated by gender dynamics and conservative macro-economic …
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The sites and services approach: a partial solution to South Africa's urban housing shortage
… 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 …
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Spatial segregation in complex urban systems : housing and public policy in Santiago, Chile
… to social services for all, especially adequate housing. Urban change in the mega-city has been particularly rapid and has involved a complex interaction between multiple actors at multiple levels. Tracing the patterns of urban development within this context is complex and involves incorporating …
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The role of values, norms and affect in relation to water-scarcity risk perceptions and water conservation behaviours in the Western Cape
… of 2014-2017 in an urban population living in formal housing in the City of Cape Town. The outcomes of this study are two-fold. Firstly, this research provides evidence for the usefulness of a conceptual framework rooted in risk perceptions literature for understanding how affect, social norms …
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Implementation of low-cost housing scheme: a case study of Tshikota Township in Limpopo Province
… Municipality, Limpopo Province, for its low-cost housing implementation. The Reconstruction and Development Programme (ANC, 1994) included affordable housing to clear the backlog in the nation following the overthrow of the apartheid regime. There was a backlog at Tshikota Township that also …
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The economics of housing lower income populations in South Africa : challenges and opportunities in KwaZulu-Natal
… such as corruption, the backlog of formal housing units stands at almost 1.5 million. This persistent unmet need for low-income and affordable housing is putting tremendous pressure on South African leaders to more efficiently implement the policies they have created and take a new …
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The role of women in the formalisation of housing and placemaking: The case of the Victoria Mxenge housing project
The formal housing system in Cape Town presents a daunting challenge, with a significant backlog and a growing demand for housing opportunities. Policy challenges persist, including the perception that informal settlements are temporary. Thus, there is a need for a more nuanced approach to housing …
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A review of infrastructure services for the upgrading of South African informal settlements
Informal settlements are rapidly growing around South Africa's urban centres. With the current housing policy unable to cope with the housing backlog, let alone the growth in demand, new solutions need to be found to improve the unpleasant, unhealthy and unsafe conditions in these settlements. …
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Shifting Spaces: Housing and Urban Change in Kabul
This thesis explores the evolution of Kabul’s housing landscape with a focus on the emergence of Shahraks (planned townships) after 2001. Drawing on historical research, four case studies (Aria City, Khwaja Rawash Township, Khushal Khan Mena Blocks, and Omid-e-Sabz Township), and interviews with …
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A camcorder-based rapid mapping system
… first, Hi-8 camcorder imagery was acquired for informal settlement mapping under the UrbanModeler project being run by the Department of Geomatics at the University of Cape Town. The informal settlement of Marconi Beam in Milnerton, Cape Town serves as an application for the UrbanModeler project, …
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Contextualising energy justice in low-income built environment: Towards data-driven policy interventions for addressing distributive injustices in slum rehabilitation housing of the Global South
… slums today globally, and rehabilitating them to formal housing is a significant challenge. Slum rehabilitation housing is a policy effort to solve this crisis and alleviate urban poverty. However, the question of whether slum rehabilitation programmes are accomplishing more good than harm or …
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Low-income housing in Kampala, Uganda : a strategy package to overcome barriers for delivering housing opportunities affordable to the urban poor
The city of Kampala, Uganda, is struggling with a housing deficit that is compounding each year and creating market distortions that threaten to derail recent economic success and destabilize the social fabric of the community. The majority of government and private developers who build new housing …
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Enabling access to housing in Jos, Nigeria : Implementation and the new bureaucrats.
… of the enabling approach within the context of housing provision in Jos, Nigeria. The research analyses how the notion of enabling has been deployed and why it has failed to provide solutions to formal housing problems in Nigeria and other developing economies. This study takes the form of a …
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Understanding housing reconstruction in Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria
… resources, and decision making relevant to housing reconstruction post-disaster in Puerto Rico comes from the US federal government. Therefore, during the ensuing housing reconstruction effort, the differences between the reality of housing in Puerto Rico, and the policy and processes coming …
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Application of information systems in irregular settlement management and low-cost housing provision
… and the process of delivering low-cost housing in South Africa. An Irregular Settlement can be defined as an area where the 'shacks' have no fixed street address. Due to policies by previous regimes, under whose rule irregular settlements were almost ignored, there is often little or no …
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Environmental health recommendations for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
… smoking, alcohol, other substance use and housing. Outcomes of interest included optimization of health and prevention of MDR-TB transmission to household contacts. The article (part B) represents the results from the systematic search as well as the application to current policy …
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Planning for low income settlements in the Blaauwberg Administration Area
… the accommodation of those people residing in informal settlements, characteristically the lowest income earners and unemployed. Internationally, nationally and locally, there is a general surge of interest in urban planning towards accommodating low-income settlements adequately, and in …
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