Informal Transactions of Low Income Houses in South Africa : : A Case Study of eThekwini Municipality / / Sandile Mbatha.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2022 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Mbatha, Sandile,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Habitat International - Schriften zur internationalen Urbanistik ; 26
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 p.)

Through a series of intricate informal processes and human-centric institutional arrangements, beneficiaries of South African government-subsidized housing force formally registered properties into informality. Sandile Mbatha explores the concept of informality in relation to how such beneficiaries challenge predominant understanding of how property relations function. These practices are embedded in complex urban tenure dynamics that prevail in post-colonial societies; societies, in which the state's imposition of predominantly western forms of tenure and property rights ignore the anthropological nature of housing.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Editorial -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Conceptualizing the Housing Discourse -- Chapter 3: Institutional Responses to the Housing Need in South Africa -- Chapter 4: Embeddedness of Transaction Practices in Culture, Society, Law and Property Rights -- Chapter 5: Context of State of Housing in Low-Income Settlements in eThekwini Municipality -- Chapter 6: Perspectives on Informal Housing Transactions from above: State Actors, Practitioners and Academics -- Chapter 7: Perspective on Informal Housing Transaction from below: Beneficiaries and Community Actors -- Chapter 8: Interpretation of Findings -- Chapter 9: Conclusions and Recommendations -- References