Transforming South Africa’s low-income housing projects through backyard dwellings: intersections with households and the state in Alexandra, Johannesburg
Transforming South Africa’s low-income housing projects through backyard dwellings: intersections with households and the state in Alexandra, Johannesburg
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通过后院住宅改造南非的低收入住房项目：约翰内斯堡亚历山德拉与家庭和国家的交叉点
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2013
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S. Charlton
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Yasmin Shapurjee;S. Charlton
南非的“住房方案”向符合条件的受益人转让一个资金充足的有服务设施的场地和房屋，目的是通过拥有住房逐步解决贫困问题。尽管自1994年以来提供了近300万套住房，但非正规住房仍然存在，甚至在一些新的居民区也是如此。本文的重点是非正式住房，后院住宅，和国家补贴的低收入住房项目的特定模式之间的交叉点。后院住宅象征着非正式和混乱，可以说与国家住房目标相矛盾;住房计划努力克服的不足症状。我们首先考虑的观点和经验的房东（业主的国家补贴的房子）和租户（占用私人提供的后院住宅）在一个部分的亚历山德拉，约翰内斯堡。然后，我们反思后种族隔离住房交付的后院住宿的潜力，认为尽管存在挑战，有计划的，国家主导的基础设施产生的二级住宿的现象代表了一个机会，而不是失败的现代化的例子。南非的后院住宅与全球南方类似形式的自筹资金和管理的出租房屋产生了共鸣。作为一种快速，灵活和可再生的住房资产，这种租赁市场的累积接受是必要的，同时将驱动因素视为住房和生计提供方面的精明创新者。
South Africa’s ‘housing programme’ transfers a fully-funded serviced site and house to qualifying beneficiaries with aims of progressively addressing poverty through homeownership. Despite delivering close to 3 million houses since 1994, informal housing persists, featuring even in some of these new neighbourhoods. This paper focuses on the intersection between a particular mode of informal housing, backyard dwellings, and state-subsidised low-income housing projects. Backyard dwellings arguably contradict state housing objectives by symbolising informality and disorder; a symptom of inadequacy that the housing programme strives to overcome. We consider first the views and experiences of landlords (owners of state-subsided houses) and tenants (occupiers of privately-provided backyard dwellings) in a section of Alexandra, Johannesburg. We then reflect on the potential of backyard accommodation within post-apartheid housing delivery, arguing that despite challenges, the phenomenon of planned, state-led infrastructure generating secondary accommodation represents an opportunity rather than an example of failed modernity. South Africa’s backyard dwellings resonate with similar forms of self-funded and managed rental stock across the global South. As a quick, flexible and regenerative housing asset, cumulative acceptance of such rental markets is necessary—along with viewing the driving actors as astute innovators in shelter and livelihood provision.