A 'Marshall Plan' for human settlements: how megaprojects became South Africa's housing policy

Ballard, Richard; Rubin, Margot

doi:10.1353/trn.2017.0020

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“…The "human settlements sector in South Africa remains one of the most challenging areas in the social and economic environment" (National Department of Human Settlements, 2015; Ballard and Rubin, 2017;Tomlinson, 2017). This is partly because solving the housing problem has been seen as a fight against a moving average which is further complicated by the fact that housing problem fits the requirements of a "wicked problem" that requires multiple, non-conventional approaches and solutions in (re)solving the matters germane to the sector (Dearnaley, 2018).…”

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“…Literature is replete with how ABTLC and CC adaptive and resilient settlement systems can be a powerful antidote in addressing LIH settlements challenges and matters (Ashworth and Perrera, 2015;Ballard and Rubin, 2017;Bredennoord, 2017). Infusing disruptive LIH construction and building technologies, as depicted in Table 9, presents opportunities for changing the LIH projects landscape in terms of ABT implementation issues.…”

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"Low-Income Housing Backlogs and Deficits “Blues” in South Africa. What Solutions Can a Lean Construction Approach Proffer? "

Chakwizira¹

2019

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The Oxford dictionary defines the word "blues" as meaning "a feeling of depression or deep unhappiness, gloominess, despondency, dejection and despair". The concept of low-income housing (LIH) and the notion of housing backlogs and deficits "blues" in South Africa is linked to a sub-optimal performing LIH sector in which slow turnaround times, slow service LIH delivery stock turnover and continued failure to reverse significantly LIH waiting list requirements persists across municipalities throughout the country. Coupled with the challenge and threat presented by climate change (CC) induced vulnerabilities for LIH with questions marks hanging with respect to the capacity and capabilities of both state and non-state actors to provide a sustainable CC resilient and insulated LIH sector in the country, so much that perceived feelings of gloom, despondency, dejection and despair start finding expression in respect to the ability of the housing sector to guarantee settlement resilience in this new climatic and socioeconomic environment. In this regard, exploring how existing initiatives such as alternative building Centre for Research on Settlements and Urbanism Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning J o u r n a l h o m e p a g e: http://jssp.reviste.ubbcluj.ro This paper seeks to answer the following main question: "Does housing backlogs and deficits rhetoric constrain policy makers, decisionmakers, practitioners and experts from engaging in the implementation of transformative low-income housing projects and programmes in South Africa?". The aim and purpose of this paper are: (1) to contribute to the understanding of the concept of lowincome housing backlogs and deficits "blues" in South Africa. This is achieved through suggesting how innovative lean housing construction and development approach/models can play a "catalytic" role in the quest to redress low-income housing provision and delivery requirements; and (2) to argue that applied research and development of housing innovations in practice is critical in transforming the low-income housing sustainability agenda in South Africa and by extension in developing countries. The analysis is based on a critical literature review of housing approaches of low-income housing delivery, affordable strategies, policy implementation realities and discourses, low-income housing technology options, in addition to industry experience and own observation. This paper establishes the significance of considering up scaling the implementation of lean advanced construction techniques, use of low-cost building materials and fast-construction building techniques in responding to the growing demand for low-income housing provision and services in South Africa. The need to continuously monitor, evaluate and review the housing policy and regulatory setup relevancy in addressing low-income housing deficits and backlogs with the aid of a lean construction as necessary to improve low-income housing delivery deployment in South Africa.

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"Low-Income Housing Backlogs and Deficits “Blues” in South Africa. What Solutions Can a Lean Construction Approach Proffer? "

Chakwizira¹

2019

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“…Despite its national nomenclature, it is a largely provincial body, representing almost 80 per cent of those involved in affordable residential development in the Gauteng city-region. It establishes a 'face' for the industry among more powerful associations (commercial property owners, inner city property owners), and lobbies for its members' interests, primarily around reducing bulk contributions, approval delays, electricity provision (SA Affordable Housing, 2014) and proposing 'mega projects' in line with housing policy's new visions ( SA Affordable Housing, 2015; see Ballard and Rubin, 2017).…”

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Appropriating rent from greenfield affordable housing: developer practices in Johannesburg

Butcher

2020

Environ Plan A

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‘Affordable housing’ for Johannesburg’s growing middle class is a developmentalist imperative and potentially lucrative market. However, few greenfield developers have found this market profitable. Fundamental to those who have, is control over land and its development. This paper puts heterodox urban land rent theory to work vis-à-vis the logics and practices of these developers. I illustrate how greenfield affordable housing developers work to (re)produce differential and monopoly rents in this context. Differential rents rely on investing in cheap land produced through the city’s racialised geography, and controlling land’s development through vertical integration, dynamic negotiations with local government and development finance institutions, and steering money and people into developments. Monopoly rents rely on the power of developers to act together as a class to secure land, give the appearance of competition and lobby the state in their interests. This power is built through racialised control over land and long personal connections. It is also consolidated by the state’s own land development bureaucracy and preference for ‘mega’ developments and recognisable developers. Together, these developer strategies to accrue differential and monopoly rents demonstrate their active role in the everyday making of land and housing markets. They also demand extensions of heterodox urban land rent theory: first, a more articulated understanding of how class monopoly power over land is built through race, and second, a more contingent analysis of capital’s relations to other actors and institutions, especially the state.

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“…Since the adoption of the NDP, SPLUMA and the IUDF, the South African state has embarked on mega-human settlements projects that contradict the agreed spatial vision of urban compaction (Ballard, Dittgen, Harrison & Todes, 2017;Ballard & Rubin, 2017). If urban land reform is framed as the creation of new towns or megacities, or largescale rapid land release, low-density sprawl may be increased, since it is generally only on the periphery that sufficient land is available for large-scale development.…”

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Urban land reform in South Africa: Pointers for urban policy and planning

Huchzermeyer

Harrison

Charlton

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Urban and reform is a relatively under-researched and-considered element of the broader land-reform debate. This article reviews some of the key positions that have been explicated in the current urban land-reform debate, and seeks to extend existing contributions, fine-tune them and push the debate further. It does so by distinguishing the features of urban land, and considers these and their implications for the meaning of land reform. It also reviews the recently achieved, national policy consensus on urban development and planning, and concludes with suggestions on how to proceed with urban land reform.

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A 'Marshall Plan' for human settlements: how megaprojects became South Africa's housing policy

Cited by 44 publications

References 20 publications

"Low-Income Housing Backlogs and Deficits “Blues” in South Africa. What Solutions Can a Lean Construction Approach Proffer? "

"Low-Income Housing Backlogs and Deficits “Blues” in South Africa. What Solutions Can a Lean Construction Approach Proffer? "

Appropriating rent from greenfield affordable housing: developer practices in Johannesburg

Urban land reform in South Africa: Pointers for urban policy and planning

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