housing shortages

Housing shortages in South Africa: a discussion of the after-effects of community participation in housing provision in Diepkloof

Community participation is a complex process and its propensity to having unintended negative effects plays a vital role in its outcome. This paper attempts to reconstruct and critique the outcomes of a participatory process that seeks to address housing shortages by using the narratives of local residents in Diepkloof. Heterogeneity of identities tied to “spatiality…

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