Waiting for a house or building your own? Reconsidering state provision, aided and unaided self-help in South Africa

Habitat International

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 299-305

  Landman, Karina ^a   Napier, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b Urban LandMark   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Aided self help housing; Housing subsidies; Informal settlements; People's housing process (PHP); South Africa

Indexed keywords

AFFORDABLE HOUSING; HOUSING PROVISION; INFORMAL SECTOR; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; PRIVATE SECTOR; SELF HELP; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 77549088385     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2009.11.015     Document Type: Article

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