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Title:The Seven Buildings Project: Is Co-Operative Housing the Answer to South Africa's Housing Crisis
Author:Cull, TracyISNI
Year:2001
Periodical:Africa Insight
Volume:31
Issue:1
Period:March
Pages:43-49
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:housing cooperatives
housing policy
Urbanization and Migration
Development and Technology
Abstract:The challenge of providing housing for those in need in South Africa is exacerbated by the huge task of upgrading existing accommodation. An answer to these problems may be cooperative housing, a well-established form of tenure in other parts of the world but relatively unknown in South Africa. In 1996, the Gauteng Provincial Housing Board enabled the approximately 2,000 tenants of seven apartment buildings in Hillbrow, Joubert Park and Berea to become owners of the flats they were living in. This article describes the background to the Seven Buildings Project, its history, the way subsidies were allocated and recent developments. The lessons to be learned from this project are: education of tenants is essential; the smaller the cooperative housing project the better; the project should not be run by the tenants/residents/owners themselves but by an 'outside' agency; and housing projects cannot work in isolation. Ref.
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