Work

As home spaces implode, place-making suffers

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: In the current review of housing policy in South Africa, the HSRC was asked to investigate whether low-cost housing policies had increased access to the city for the poor over the past 25 years. The researchers found that state-led, pro-poor suburbanisation projects have imploded, due to re-urbanisation and adverse residential involution that has dire consequences for the formation of sustainable, place-based communities.

Source: Human Science Research Council SA

DOI: 10.14749/32379591

Author: Human Sciences Research Council

Language: English

Topic: Urban and Rural Development Challenges

Subfield: Urban Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Reduced inequalities, No poverty

Open Access status: green

Funder: Human Sciences Research Council

OpenAlex ID: W7162204746

FWCI:

Cites:

Cited by:

Related to: