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The land governance theme work focuses on how government can improve its management of land through better planning and land-use management, through its land taxation policies and practices, and how it acquires and disposes of land, all with a focus on how to improve access to land by the poor.
Municipal rates policies and the urban poor
Commissioned by the SA Cities Network and Urban Landmark, this paper examines how municipal property rates policies are, or could be, used as an instrument to promote access by the poor to urban land markets. Buffalo City Municipality and the City of Johannesburg are used as case studies to probe implementation issues and highlight some of the key trade-offs made and approaches taken by municipalities to balance municipal revenue concerns with pro-poor policy intentions.
Developing Integrated Towns
This report by Felicity Kitchin and Wendy Ovens describes an investigation of several towns, and the municipalities in which they are located, to assess the extent to which their current land use policies and practices enable municipalities to provide the poor with access to well located land in a sustainable manner, in an effort to integrate them effectively into the daily workings of the town. The six towns selected as case studies are Pietermaritzburg/Msunduzi, Rustenburg, Sasolburg/Metsimaholo, Lusikisiki/Ingquza Hill, Ulundi and Dullstroom/Emakhazeni.
Recognition and enhancement of socially dominated urban land markets
Urban Landmark has developed an empirical base on how the poor gain access to urban land, and how land markets work for the poor. The next phase aims to develop proposals that would incorporate research findings into more effective land use management and planning responses that would improve socially dominated markets through increased recognition, efficiency, effectiveness and equity, and develop ways of promoting integration across the market.
CUBES and Planact Land Management Project
The Wits Centre for Urban and Built Environment Studies (CUBES) and the urban NGO Planact have jointly managed a significant research project centred on land management, a term covering a critical set of processes, including the acquisition of land, continued rights to the land, regulation of the use and development of land, and trading of land. An overview report of this project, funded by Urban Landmark, was commissioned to scan major metropolitan areas across the country and to build up a macro view of land management issues and the conceptual and practical challenges these pose.
Metsweding peri-urban land management assessment and strategy
The purpose of this report by Riana du Plessis Urban Planning is to undertake an analysis of the constraints on effective urban/peri-urban land use management in district municipalities, utilising Metsweding District Municipality as a case study, and to formulate a strategy for addressing the key constraints or issues that emerge from the analysis.
International Land Banking Practices: Considerations for Gauteng Province
The objective of this study is to offer an overview of land banking internationally with a view to providing information for determining its feasibility in the context of Gauteng. Given the legal, institutional and financial complexities that are implicit in a practice such as land banking, this paper outlines some of the basic tenets of land banking as it functions internationally as a starting point for a more detailed analysis of its viability in the local milieu.
This presentation by the Gauteng Department of Housing provides an overview of the international experience of land banking. Specifically, it outlines definitions of land banking, investigates the practice of land banking in an international context and looks at best practice in land banking and land banks.
Regulatory Impact Assessments for Housing
In January 2007, Urban LandMark commissioned Strategic Business Partnerships (SBP) to conduct a regulatory impact analysis of two proposed regulatory interventions in the urban land market: the National Department of Housing's draft Inclusionary Housing Policy (IHP) and a proposal for the creation of a Housing Development Agency (HDA).
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