A legacy of control? The capital subsidy for housing, and informal settlement intervention in South Africa
A legacy of control? The capital subsidy for housing, and informal settlement intervention in South Africa
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10.1111/1468-2427.00468
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发表时间：
2003-09-01
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3.3
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Huchzermeyer, M
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作者：
Huchzermeyer, M
20 世纪 80 年代中期后，南非重新定义了对城市化进程的控制，“有序城市化”政策取代了基于种族的“流入控制”政策。 20世纪90年代初，在私营部门资助的政策智库城市基金会的启发下，引入了标准化的资本补贴，作为贫困户在城郊土地上有序安置的融资手段。目前，资本补贴可以被认为是南非国家住房政策的基石。本文探讨了资本补贴框架如何通过对最低收入部门的城市扩张进行严格监管来延续控制实践。它讨论了南非社会各个部门最近的反应，同时还研究了如何保持前几十年干预方法的连续性。文章指出，需要脱离资本补贴框架作为南非非正式定居点干预的基础。
Control over the urbanization process in South Africa was redefined after the mid 1980s, when the policy of 'orderly urbanization' replaced that of racially based 'influx control'. In the early 1990s, under the inspiration of the private sector-funded policy think tank, the Urban Foundation, a standardized capital subsidy was introduced as a means of financing the orderly settlement of poor households on peri-urban land. Currently, the capital subsidy may be considered the cornerstone of the South African national housing policy. This article examines how the capital subsidy framework has perpetuated the practice of control by submitting urban expansion in the lowest income sector to rigid regulation. It discusses recent responses from various sectors of the South African society, while also examining how continuity in the intervention approach was maintained from previous decades. The article points to a need to depart from the capital subsidy framework as a basis for informal settlement intervention in South Africa.