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Zimbabwe: Bulawayo battles housing backlog, unpaid bills
In an effort to clear a housing waiting list of 100 000, the City Council has embarked on a low-income housing scheme.
Parliament redrafts Rental Bill
The Parliamentary portfolio committee on human settlements has decided to redraft the proposed Rental Housing Amendment Bill so that it covers aspects raised by the department of human settlements and addresses the loopholes and ambiguities identified in the Rental Housing Act and the Rental Housing Amendment Act.
Cato Crest demolitions halted
The controversy around the flattening of shacks to build low-cost houses in the Cato Crest informal settlement in Durban has been amicably resolved, with eThekwini mayor James Nxumalo announcing that the demolitions are to be suspended.
Rent and regeneration in old Johannesburg
As South Africa's largest city struggles to house its growing population, a new apartheid is opening up in the social sector. The Johannesburg Social Housing Company (Joshco) is one of a handful of organisations aiming to turn around areas like Hillbrow.
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Governance of urban land markets in Zimbabwe
Land is of central economic and political importance in Zimbabwe, and urban land has received greater prominence during the recent years of economic decline during which many of the formal processes for land transfer have been weakened. Notwithstanding the challenges, there are signs of community-driven innovation and participation in urban management. With donors considering future assistance to the reform of legal and policy frameworks for urban development, Urban LandMark commissioned a scoping study on the governance of Zimbabwe's urban land markets which also proposes a potential programme of work to contribute to their more effective functioning.
Urban LandMark investigates the slow delivery of title deeds to housing subsidy beneficiaries
One million housing subsidy beneficiaries in South Africa – accounting for 52% of all houses reported as delivered through the housing subsidy scheme – have not received the title deeds to their properties, and the situation is worsening. As a result, poor households cannot fully benefit from the ownership of a property and use it to improve their financial circumstances. A study commissioned by Urban LandMark finds that this delay in issuing title deeds fundamentally undermines the asset quality of government-subsidised housing and compromises the integrity of our Deeds Registry. It is a critical challenge facing the state, to be addressed urgently.
Urban LandMark's land release assessment model applied in Western Cape and Gauteng case studies
Urban Landmark, in collaboration with the Western Cape Department of Human Settlements and the City of Cape Town, has developed a model to assess the costs and benefits of different residential land uses - including market-driven housing, GAP housing and subsidy housing - resulting from public land release programmes. The Land Release Assessment tool has been applied in two Western Cape and more recently two Gauteng case studies to test the model, expand the key inputs into the model and compare the Gauteng experience with that of the Western Cape.
The 'living law' of land in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal
A new report by the Mdukutshani Rural Development Programme, LEAP and the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies describes the 'living law' of land in one part of Msinga, a deep rural area of KwaZulu-Natal. Launched in 2007, at a time when implementation of the Communal Land Rights Act of 2004 appeared imminent, the project aimed to gain a detailed understanding of land tenure
in Msinga and facilitate local-level discussion of potential solutions to emerging problems around land rights.
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