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7. Access to Housing: The Main End Goal of Urban Development Policies housing) (photo 13), rooms with shared bathrooms (communal housing), and singlefamily apartments. This allows it to offer city-centre housing for people and households earning between 800 and 7,500 rand per month. 44 Photo 13. Transitional Housing in a Building Renovated by the Madulamoho Housing Association. Photo credit: Fanny Hervé. Recent Evolutions 106 Social housing institutions thus offer a variety of rental products in buildings of one or more floors in the city centre and in the townships. However, this production only accounts for a small proportion of the public housing supply for low-income households. Not all the institutions are equally efficient, the procedures to obtain subsidies are still seen as very cumbersome, and the other modes of financing are not standardized. The new housing policy, Breaking New Ground (BNG), insists on the importance of offering rental solutions and helping institutions operate so that rental solutions can become more widespread. BNG notably created a new tool, restructuring zones. Municipalities can identify certain strategic development zones and classify them as restructuring zones. Then, in the case of social housing projects in these zones, institutions can receive an 44. 800 rand = 71 euros; 7,500 rand = 672 euros. Integrating Poor Populations in South African Cities © AFD 2009
7. Access to Housing: The Main End Goal of Urban Development Policies additional subsidy, the National Social Housing Restructuring Grant. To receive the grant, the project must target 30% households earning less than 3,500 rand and 70% households earning between 3,500 and 7,500 rand. In this way, the government wishes to foster densification and ensure residential solutions for needy populations in urban areas, for example within neighbourhoods near transit hubs. The Department of Housing drafted a bill to foster the development of social housing. The Social Housing Bill was finally passed in November 2008. This law recommends the creation of a regulatory body, the Social Housing Regulatory Authority (SHRA), to manage the various subsidies and supervise the institutions’ activities. In addition, it recommends giving the municipalities greater responsibilities and powers. This law should provide greater recognition of the stakes behind and challenges facing social housing and make it possible to position rental housing as a national concern and thereby foster its connection to economic development activities. Box 4. The Social Housing System in France Origins In France, social housing is rental housing offered by the collectivity at below-market prices to all households with incomes below a certain threshold. Starting in the end of the 19 th century, the notion of “assisted housing” emerged with the aim of housing the working classes. 107 Target France follows a rather generalist concept of social housing whose mission is to provide housing to households that find themselves below maximum income thresholds: in all, 19% of French households live in social rental apartments. The Actors In France, social housing management is organized in a precise way by the law, and all management organizations are subject to the rules of the construction and housing code. Management organizations are social housing companies (non-profit public limited companies), public housing offices (local public establishments), cooperatives, public limited real estate lending companies, and semi-public companies. These organizations’ © AFD 2009 Integrating Poor Populations in South African Cities
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The author Fanny Hervé, an enginee
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Abstract In South Africa, urban dev
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Résumé En Afrique du Sud, les enj
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Contents METHODOLOGY ..............
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Contents CONCLUSION ...............
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Methodology The purpose of this stu
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FOREWORD Public Policies on Housing
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Public Policies on Housing and Urba
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Introduction At the end of aparthei
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PART ONE: An Urban Context Marked b
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An Urban History of South Africa: F
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1. An Urban History of South Africa
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Current Challenges 2 The apartheid
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Page 69 and 70: PART TWO An Uncertain Determination
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Page 141 and 142: Conclusion Nearly fifteen years ago
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Bibliography Books DU TOIT, J., U.
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Bibliography REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRI
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