Informal Transactions of Low Income Houses in South Africa: A Case Study of eThekwini Municipality

Sandile Mbatha

Published by transcript Verlag 2022

Informal Transactions of Low Income Houses in South Africa

A Case Study of eThekwini Municipality

Sandile Mbatha

Volume 26 in the series Habitat International - Schriften zur internationalen Urbanistik

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839462799

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Through a series of intricate informal processes and human-centric institutional arrangements, beneficiaries of South African government-subsidized housing force formally registered properties into informality. Sandile Mbatha explores the concept of informality in relation to how such beneficiaries challenge predominant understandings of property relations. These practices are embedded in complex urban tenure dynamics that prevail in post-colonial societies; societies, in which the state's imposition of predominantly western forms of tenure and property rights ignore the anthropological nature of housing.

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Sandile Mbatha is a senior manager at eThekwini Municipality's Research and Policy Advocacy Department and works on establishing alignments between local action and global objectives relating to Sustainable Development Goals. He has more than a decade of work experience in the public sector, academia and non-governmental sector through developing and implementing programmes for low income urban and peri-urban communities.

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Editorial Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	2
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
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Chapter 1: Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Chapter 2: Conceptualizing the Housing Discourse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Chapter 3: Institutional Responses to the Housing Need in South Africa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Chapter 4: Embeddedness of Transaction Practices in Culture, Society, Law and Property Rights Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Chapter 5: Context of State of Housing in Low-Income Settlements in eThekwini Municipality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Chapter 6: Perspectives on Informal Housing Transactions from above: State Actors, Practitioners and Academics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Chapter 7: Perspective on Informal Housing Transaction from below: Beneficiaries and Community Actors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Chapter 8: Interpretation of Findings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 244
Keywords: Housing; Markets; Culture; Citizenship; Architecture; City; Social Inequality; Urban Studies; Urban Planning; Africa; Sociology

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Published: July 27, 2022
ISBN: 9783839462799