From Free Housing Policy to the Payment of Rates and Taxes in South African Cities 1994 - 2003

From Free Housing Policy to the Payment of Rates and Taxes in South African Cities 1994 - 2003

[SHS:SOCIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology

[SHS:GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography

South Africa

post-apartheid

urban strategy

Between the beginning of the 1990s and 2003, the housing policy has shifted from "housing for all" to a more comprehensive, rationalized and complex urban strategy. The RDP (Reconstruction and Development Programme) housing strategy favoured quantitative objectives (building as many houses as possible) and chose a subsidy-based private property model. The implications of such options are fi nancially problematic for local authorities and led to a rather unsustainable urban model.

Morange, Marianne

IFAS Working Paper Series / Les Cahiers de l' IFAS

2006

ENG

article in non peer-reviewed journal

http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00799177

http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/79/91/77/PDF/Cahiers-IFAS_8_Morange.pdf