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The role of social housing in reducing inequality in South African cities

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  • Andreas SCHEBA
  • Ivan TUROK
  • Justin VISAGIE

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Social housing is a powerful tool to integrate divided cities by providing decent rental accommodation for low- and moderate-income working families. It can bring communities together in dense urban areas with plentiful opportunities, and revitalise run down inner cities. Success depends on several enabling conditions: capable social housing agencies, viable subsidy levels, well-located land, support across government, private sector involvement and determined implementation. The paper maps the spatial distribution of all social housing projects built in South Africa’s seven largest cities since the 1990s. It reveals a steady ‘spatial drift’ of new projects from inner urban areas towards outlying areas. This contradicts the objectives of urban restructuring and social integration. The dispersal trend has been driven by the high cost of private land and the failure to make surplus public land available. Recommendations are offered to steer social housing schemes back towards well-located areas.

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  • Andreas SCHEBA & Ivan TUROK & Justin VISAGIE, 2021. "The role of social housing in reducing inequality in South African cities," Working Paper 893cdf78-cd84-4f45-8157-0, Agence française de développement.
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    1. Ricardo Hausmann & Tim O'Brien & Andres Fortunato & Alexia Lochmann & Kishan Shah & Lucila Venturi & Sheyla Enciso & Ekaterina Vashkinskaya & Ketan Ahuja & Bailey Klinger & Federico Sturzenegger & Mar, 2023. "Growth Through Inclusion in South Africa," Growth Lab Working Papers 222, Harvard's Growth Lab.
      • Ricardo Hausmann & Tim O'Brien & Andres Fortunato & Alexia Lochmann & Kishan Shah & Lucila Venturi & Sheyla Enciso & Ekaterina Vashkinskaya & Ketan Ahuja & Bailey Klinger & Federico Sturzenegger & Mar, 2023. "Growth Through Inclusion in South Africa," CID Working Papers 434, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
    2. Lin, Boqiang & Okyere, Michael Adu, 2023. "Race and energy poverty: The moderating role of subsidies in South Africa," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 117(C).
    3. Wendy Annecke & Peta Wolpe, 2022. "What role for social policies in the framework of the just transition in South Africa?," Working Paper 7e67272e-9d99-4780-9d59-7, Agence française de développement.

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    Afrique du Sud;

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    • Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics

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