Public housing in Johannesburg

Charlton, Sarah

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“…Other drivers of urban sprawl have included informal settlement formation on the outskirts of townships and industrial areas, as well as the State's efforts to address homelessness through major housingprovision projects popularly associated with the Reconstruction and Development Programme. Driven by land availability and affordability, these projects have often been located on the far outskirts of cities and poorly integrated into the urban fabric, for which they have endured significant criticism (see Charlton, 2014;Landman, 2010;Venter and Cross, 2011;Venter et al, 2004).…”

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“…The GCR's multi-nodal-ness further means that its big cities have several distinct and dispersed 'cores', so that poorer areas far from the 'traditional' CBDs may nevertheless be closely located to significant 'satellite' nodes of economic activity. Diepsloot in Johannesburg's far north-west, for instance, is within easy reach of satellite nodes such as Randburg and Fourways, whereas Ivory Park in the north-east is close to the 'new' light-industrial, corporate and commercial hub of Midrand (on these and other examples, see Biermann, 2005;Charlton, 2014;Gotz and Todes, 2014;Landman, 2010;Mabin et al, 2013;Venter et al, 2004). Moreover, areas far from economic nodes in the city or municipality of which they form part are sometimes located close to such nodes in neighbouring cities.…”

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“…To use the same examples, Diepsloot is closer to Centurion in Tshwane than it is to the Johannesburg CBD, whereas Ivory Park is roughly as far from Johannesburg as from Kempton Park in Ekurhuleni (home to significant economic activity surrounding the OR Tambo airport) (see Charlton, 2014;Gotz and Todes, 2014;SERI, 2016). Geographical shifts in nodes of industrial and other business activity have further meant that areas which used to be located far from job opportunities over time found themselves no longer so, and vice versa (see Charlton, 2014;Gotz and Todes, 2014;Mabin et al, 2013). There has also been some (albeit uneven) economic development within erstwhile neglected township areas, such as in Soweto to Johannesburg's south-west and Babelegi to Pretoria's far north-west (see Harrison and Dinath, 2017).…”

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Where is the periphery even? Capturing urban marginality in South African human rights law

Pieterse

2018

Urban Studies

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This article questions the usefulness of the notion of an ‘urban periphery’ for efforts to capture and ameliorate urban marginalisation and exclusion through human rights-based litigation. Focusing on South Africa’s Gauteng City Region, the article argues that the notion of an urban periphery fails to capture the nuances of marginal urban life and the interests of poor, marginalised urban residents in accessing the city. In the specific context of the right of access to housing, the article then grapples with South African judicial engagements with the spatial dimensions of urban marginalisation. It finds that, despite the fixation of human rights litigators, activists and commentators on housing location and the ‘urban periphery’, courts are adopting a more nuanced and balanced approach to urban marginality. It accordingly identifies interests that should be accommodated by such an approach and points to legal concepts which may more constructively respond to these.

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Where is the periphery even? Capturing urban marginality in South African human rights law

Pieterse

2018

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“…Although there have been instances of urban infill projects that break up apartheid patterns, both in terms of race and class, most government-provided housing has not done this (Charlton 2014). In 2013, the Johannesburg municipal government launched a programme called Corridors of Freedom which intends to densify and diversify residential neighbourhoods along Bus Rapid Transit routes, although this has yet to have a major impact (Ballard et al 2017).…”

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Income Inequality and Socio-economic Segregation in the City of Johannesburg

Ballard

Hamann

2021

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This chapter analyses income inequality and socio-economic segregation in South Africa’s most populous city, Johannesburg. The end of apartheid’s segregation in 1991 has been followed by both continuity and change of urban spatial patterns. There is a considerable literature on the transformation of inner-city areas from white to black, and of the steady diffusion of black middle-class residents into once ‘white’ suburbs. There has been less analysis on the nature and pace of socio-economic mixing. Four key findings from this chapter are as follows. First, dissimilarity indices show that bottom occupation categories and the unemployed are highly segregated from top occupation categories, but that the degree of segregation has decreased slightly between the censuses of 2001 and 2011. Second, the data quantifies the way in which Johannesburg’s large population of unemployed people are more segregated from top occupations than any of the other employment categories, although unemployed people are less segregated from bottom occupations. Third, over the same period, residents employed in bottom occupations are less likely to be represented in affluent former white suburbs. This seemingly paradoxical finding is likely to have resulted from fewer affluent households accommodating their domestic workers on their properties. Fourth, although most post-apartheid public housing projects have not disrupted patterns of socio-economic segregation, some important exceptions do show the enormous capacity of public housing to transform the spatial structure of the city.

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“… 24. Charlton, Sarah (2014), “Public housing in Johannesburg”, in Philip Harrison, Graeme Gotz, Alison Todes and Chris Wray (editors), Changing Space, Changing City: Johannesburg after Apartheid , Wits University Press, Johannesburg, pages 176–193. …”

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Building just and sustainable cities through government housing developments

Culwick¹,

Patel²

2020

Environment and Urbanization

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While government housing can raise living standards for the urban poor, it has environmental impacts and contributes to urban resource consumption. In Gauteng Province, South Africa, government housing aims to improve quality of life, reduce poverty and inequality, and transform unsustainable urban forms. This paper draws on survey and interview data to explore the social justice and environmental sustainability outcomes of Gauteng’s government housing programmes. The data reveal improved access to basic services and amenities. However, the developments tend to be poorly located with regard to economic opportunities, and residents are forced to explore other income generation opportunities. This paper highlights the complex interplay between justice and sustainability, where the outcomes are aligned in some instances and conflictual in others. It points to the need to move beyond linear, reductionist relationships between justice and sustainability to further the conceptual understanding of their interlinkages.

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Public housing in Johannesburg

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Where is the periphery even? Capturing urban marginality in South African human rights law

Where is the periphery even? Capturing urban marginality in South African human rights law

Income Inequality and Socio-economic Segregation in the City of Johannesburg

Building just and sustainable cities through government housing developments

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