Search
Searching with a thematic focus on Governance in South Africa
Showing 221-230 of 598 results
Pages
- Document
Do informal land markets work for poor people?: an assessment of three metropolitan cities in South Africa: literature review
Urban LandMark, 2007The literature on urban land generally suggests that there is a straightforward relationship between urban land management and informal land markets. This review paper argues that informal land dynamics and land management processes are more complexly intertwined than the current literature suggests.DocumentInvestigation into the delays in issuing title deeds to beneficiaries of housing projects funded by the capitalsubsidy: desktop review
Urban LandMark, 2011South Africa’s housing policy was launched in 1994 with a key component being the housing subsidy scheme which promised to deliver one million houses in five years. Since that date the Department of Human Settlements estimates that it has delivered approximately 2.8 million houses to qualifying beneficiaries throughout South Africa, through this scheme.DocumentInvestigation into the delays in issuing title deeds to beneficiaries of housing projects funded by the capital subsidy
Urban LandMark, 2011Recognising that subsidised houses in South Africa have limited potential to function as an asset without the provision of formal title, the report identifies the objective of ensuring that formal transfer to subsidy beneficiaries occurs as quickly and as efficiently as possible.DocumentDo informal land markets work for poor people?: an assessment of three metropolitan cities in South Africa: analysis of legislation
Urban LandMark, 2007This paper seeks to determine what the effects of the regulatory system are on the ability of the urban poor to access, trade and hold land in South Africa.DocumentHome based entrepreneurs
Urban LandMark, 2006To understand why not many South Africans consider their house as an asset that can build wealth, and how the economic asset potential of housing can be promoted as a strategy to alleviate poverty, a study into housing entrepreneurs was carried out in Gauteng in 2005 and 2006, by Shisaka Development Management Services.DocumentImproving land sector governance in South Africa implementation of the land governance assessment framework
Urban LandMark, 2012Land governance and administration are critical for achieving economic growth and development in any country. It is within this context that the World Bank introduced the Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) for identifying specific areas for land reform while also providing a means for monitoring.DocumentTowards effective state interventions to improve access by the poor to urban land markets
Urban LandMark, 2006The main objective of this study is to investigate and discuss ways in which the state should intervene around urban land issues, within the context of its relationship to the private sector, in order to improve the access of poorer and excluded sectors of South African urban society to land, housing, and services.DocumentDo informal land markets work for poor people?: an assessment of three metropolitan cities in South Africa
Urban LandMark, 2007This research investigates the extra-legal ways in which poor people access, trade and hold urban land in different types of settlements in three South African metropolitan areas.DocumentUrban land markets: how the poor access, hold and trade land
Urban LandMark, 2007This Urban LandMark report investigates how the poor access, hold and trade land in different types of settlements in three metropolitan areas in South Africa. The paper suggests that land transactions are taking place outside of the officially recognised system of land management and property ownership, though little is known about how these alternative arrangements work.DocumentUrban land biographies: a study of co-existing land use and land use management in three precincts in Gauteng
Urban LandMark, 2008This book tells that the distinctive contribution of urban land biographies is how they reveal and give value to a greater set of land use management processes and practices than is officially acknowledged by planners and policy-makers.Pages