Rights and secure tenure

The secure tenure theme work focuses on the issue of how rights over land are progressively realised, by raising awareness around informal markets and by addressing tenure processes in the upgrading of informal settlements. The work drives towards greater recognition and enhancement of informal land markets.

LANDfirst, as an approach to settlement development, emphasises the provision of planned secure land with basic services as a first step towards a longer-term housing and settlement upgrading process.

2011

• The interaction between informal land markets and rural-urban migration

2010

• Incrementally securing tenure: an approach for informal settlement upgrading in South Africa
• Investigation into an apparent increase in evictions from private rental housing
• New small-scale rental strategy promises to improve supply of affordable housing
• The struggle for property ownership in New Crossroads
• Towards managed land settlement - a review of five South African case studies

2009

• LANDfirst campaign strategy and funding review
• Workshop proceedings: incrementally securing tenure - 29 January 2009

2008

• Access to Urban Land: a handbook for community organisations
• How the poor access, hold and trade land: findings revisited
• Land Access Manuals - by Afesis Corplan
• Land Biographies Project
• Local Land Registration Practices in South Africa

2007

• How the poor access, hold and trade land
• Voices of the Poor: community perspectives on accessing urban land