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Governance and urban land markets
Planning law and policy consultant Stephen Berrisford takes a look at the importance of governance in the quest to make land markets work better for the poor. The article explores, inter alia, how the State - at local, provincial and national level – can change the way it exercises power to provide greater access to and more secure tenure for poor households and businesses in the urban land market.
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Making housing delivery easier by unlocking bulk land for land-first approach
Afesis-corplan has been supporting a land-first approach to settlement development for a number of years. An article by Ronald Eglin, published in the April-May 2009 issue of Transformer magazine, proposes innovative solutions to the challenge of providing serviced land with secure tenure for people to build basic temporary accommodation. |
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Beyond yard socialism: Landlords, tenants and social power in the backyards of a South African city
State of the Nation: South Africa 2008 is the fifth volume in the annual series published by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) Press. A chapter contributed by Leslie Bank argues that the current policy proposals about upgrading backyards could create new opportunities for the re-emergence of exploitative forms of landlordism in townships. |
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Gauteng 2055 Trend Paper: Highlighting some of the real and potential impacts of migration in Gauteng
A short report by Loren B. Landau and Véronique Gindrey of the Forced Migration Studies Programme at the University of the Witwatersrand summarises a variety of trends and concerns related to population trends in Gauteng. |
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