Living in state housing: expectations, contradictions and consequences

Lemanski, Charlotte; Charlton, Sarah; Meth, Paula

doi:10.1353/trn.2017.0000

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“…By contrast, Buire (2014) finds that urban peripheries are providing new ‘orderly’ suburban lifestyles and homeownership in large new state‐led apartment developments some 20–30 kms from Luanda. Across diverse forms of state‐sponsored housing in southern Africa's urban peripheries, including in Maputo (Melo 2017), eThekwini and Johannesburg (Charlton and Meth, 2017), there are complex resident experiences that reflect the ‘everyday realities’ of establishing lives in new edge localities (Lemanski et al ., 2017). While these studies suggest that different forms of housing and lifestyles are emerging in the urban peripheries, they are all associated with very long commutes exacerbated by poor infrastructure, suggesting that being geographically peripheral produces a distinctive experience of the urban.…”

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“…More generally, much of the literature on urban peripheries emphasizes new growth, or the consolidation of rural or informal settlements that might have emerged incrementally. There is less work on the transformation of large existing housing estates and ‘townships’ on the urban edge, which emerged in the context of earlier histories (but see Lemanski et al ., 2017; Güney et al ., 2019). Previous urban edge development is important in South Africa, given its apartheid history, but not unique to it.…”

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Conceptualizing African Urban Peripheries

Meth¹,

Goodfellow²,

Todes³

et al. 2021

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Recent years have seen a rising interest in peri-urban spaces, urban frontiers and new suburbanisms, including in African contexts. However, given the scale of urban growth and the extreme diversity of formations emerging on the geographical edges of African city-regions, a deeper understanding is needed of the drivers of peripheral urbanisms and the lived experiences of urban change in these spaces. Based on a comparative research project in South Africa and Ethiopia, this article draws out the epistemologies of researching African urban peripheries and presents a new conceptual framework. It offers a language for interpreting processes of peripheral development and change, highlighting five distinct but overlapping logics which we term speculative, vanguard, auto-constructed, transitioning and inherited. Rather than describing bounded peripheral spaces, we argue that these logics can co-exist, hybridize and bleed into each other in different ways in specific places and at different temporal junctures. Centring our methodological practices of comparative analysis, and privileging the voices of those living in urban peripheries, the article employs critical readings of urban scholarship before exploring how these five logics illuminate the complex processes of urban peripheral evolution and transformation. Formulating these logics helps to fill a lacuna in urban conceptualization with potential relevance beyond African contexts.

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Conceptualizing African Urban Peripheries

Meth¹,

Goodfellow²,

Todes³

et al. 2021

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…En el foro de Hábitat-III de 2016 sobre la vivienda de desarrollo urbano sostenible, se recomienda que, todos los gobiernos deben establecer en todos sus niveles la participación de sus comunidades en la toma de decisiones concernientes a todos los aspectos que afectan su calidad de vida, pues debe estar en la base de las decisiones de los países (Lemanski et al, 2017), controlando el cumplimiento de los programas de vivienda. Además, en las tres cumbres de la ONU, las políticas en relación con la VIS, se busca enfrentar los retos del desarrollo urbano sostenible en la construcción de ciudades equitativas e incluyentes en las que exista la participación ciudadana, a través de la organización de comités que aborden la problemática de las necesidades locales como ejes de desarrollo, que conlleven a superar la incertidumbre y construir el tejido social con igualdad y la participación tanto de la comunidad como del estado (Brednoord et al, 2014).…”

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Enseñanzas atribuibles a los procesos de adjudicación de vivienda de interés social en una ciudad colombiana: grado de satisfacción del usuario

2020

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El objetivo de este trabajo investigativo consistió en explorar los procesos de adjudicación de la Vivienda de Interés Social (VIS) en dos proyectos de la ciudad de Tunja en Colombia. La metodología tuvo enfoque descriptivo-exploratorio. En la investigación participaron 90 familias usuarias del programa de vivienda y se utilizó una encuesta para recoger la información relacionada con la ejecución de los proyectos y el grado de satisfacción de los usuarios. El procesamiento de los datos se hizo con el software libre R. Los resultados proporcionaron evidencia de que el grado de satisfacción de los usuarios es relativamente bajo en los aspectos referidos al tiempo trascurrido para la adjudicación de la VIS, las características físico-espaciales de algunas viviendas y los procesos administrativos seguidos por las empresas contratistas. Se concluye que la VIS adjudicada ha mejorado la calidad de vida de los beneficiarios en un alto porcentaje aunque hay aspectos por optimizar.

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“…This question remained unanswered in South Africa’s rich literature on the biggest post-apartheid housing developer – the state and its public housing programs (Huchzermeyer, 2003; Lemanski et al., 2017). Nor have developers’ logics and practices been central to investigating Johannesburg’s experiences of ‘privatised urbanism’ (Dirsuweit and Schattauer, 2004; Herbert and Murray, 2015; cf.…”

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Appropriating rent from greenfield affordable housing: developer practices in Johannesburg

Butcher

2020

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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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Living in state housing: expectations, contradictions and consequences

Cited by 10 publications

References 11 publications

Conceptualizing African Urban Peripheries

Conceptualizing African Urban Peripheries

Enseñanzas atribuibles a los procesos de adjudicación de vivienda de interés social en una ciudad colombiana: grado de satisfacción del usuario

Appropriating rent from greenfield affordable housing: developer practices in Johannesburg

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