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More than just a place to live: shelter and livelihoods of the urban poor
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
What are the consequences of lacking formal tenure to the place where you live? Can a livelihoods approach help us understand the difficulties faced by the urban poor in seeking secure land and shelter? Could new tenure arrangements reduce insecurity and widen access to credit for those without conventional collateral?
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Urban reforms in China: improving housing for the poor?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
How have economic reforms affected housing provision for China’s urban poor? Has the recent introduction of low-rent social housing benefited unskilled industrial workers laid off by bankrupt state enterprise? Are migrants from rural areas able to access available assistance? Should their presence in cities be legalised?
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A matter of timing: migration and housing access in metropolitan Johannesburg
Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2002
The main findings from this study sheds new light on the dynamics of state control over African urbanisation in Johannesburg and its consequences for social differentiation.It reveals that , in spite of state control to limit African urbanisation, the African population of Johannesburg grew steadily throughout the apartheid period.