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Access to housing in Cape Town : do young people move smoothly from parental housing to independent living arrangements?

Abstract

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Most international and local (South African) research on housing examine housing tenure in terms of static categories, - i.e. does someone own or rent their accommodation - without capturing either the dynamics of how people occupy housing or the complexities that arise when, for example, someone might rent accommodation while owning a house elsewhere. Most censuses and surveys simply ask whether the household living in a sampled house (or apartment, etc) currently rents or owns that house. I find access to housing to be a better analytical category than tenure arguing that renting and owner occupier housing are not exclusive categories, and can co-exist, and that additional categories should be identified.

Degree

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Department of Social Development
Year dc:date.issued
2010

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Chisonga, Nixon
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Seekings, Jeremy

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Language dc:language.iso
eng

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Handle dc:identifier.uri
http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10205
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oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10205

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Chisonga, Nixon. Access to housing in Cape Town : do young people move smoothly from parental housing to independent living arrangements?. Department of Social Development, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10205