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7. Access to Housing: The Main End Goal of Urban Development Policies
Example Institutions and Projects
To illustrate SHIs’ diversity and types of projects, here are three example institutions
in Johannesburg:
The Johannesburg Housing Company (JHC) is a Section 21 company. It is
known as the best managed social housing institution and is often cited as an example.
JHC builds many housing projects in the city centre. The households that can access
them must have fixed salaries. There is considerable demand for this type of housing,
and demand is managed independently by JHC and other institutions: there is no
centralized waiting list.
Photos 7, 8 and 9.
JHC Model Apartment in the City Centre
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Photo credit: Fanny Hervé.
The Johannesburg Social Housing Company (JOSHCO) is a municipal-owned
company (MOC) created by the city of Johannesburg in 2004. It builds and manages,
for the municipality, rental housing (photo 10) in the city centre (projects to develop empty
plots of land) and housing following the renovation of former hostels. The products
offered by JOSHCO target in part poorer households than those targeted by JHC.
JOSHCO notably manages communal housing with shared facilities.
The Madulamoho Housing Association is a recent institution whose vocation is
to provide rental solutions in the city centre for the poorest (photos 11 and 12). These
solutions copy the market by offering a range of products: beds in dormitories (transitional
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