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dc.contributor.authorMatsha, Rachel Matteauen_US
dc.contributor.authorErwin, Kiraen_US
dc.contributor.authorMusvoto, Godfreyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-17T02:11:53Z-
dc.date.available2024-08-17T02:11:53Z-
dc.date.issued2023-
dc.identifier.citationMatsha, R.M., Erwin, K. and Musvoto, G. 2023. The cost of ownership: learning from Flamingo Court, a former social housing apartment block in Durban. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa. 112(1): 94-118. doi:10.1353/trn.2023.a926451en_US
dc.identifier.issn1726-1368 (Online)-
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10321/5423-
dc.description.abstractABSTRACT: Owning property is an aspiration for many people living in South Africa. The belief that private ownership is a stepping-stone towards material and financial wealth is dominant in South African housing policy. While property ownership may lead to better living conditions and the accrual of wealth, it can also lead to exclusion, dispossession, and displacement for many low-income families. This article analyses the socio-economic, and built environment consequences, of privatising a municipal social housing block, Flamingo Court, located in the city of Durban. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative studies in Flamingo Court, we show that the impact of private ownership for the residents has proved more of a curse than a blessing. There are also unexpected costs to the state in privatising social housing units. The paper argues that low-income beneficiaries of privatised former social housing cannot always afford the costs of maintaining communal spaces or the dwelling units that come with private ownership. This results in deterioration of the building infrastructure, communal finance and governance of the apartment block, and ultimately places residents' security of tenure at risk. Flamingo Court offers an important case study for thinking through some of the hidden costs of ownership for sectional title blocks in the urban core and how and why ownership does not always translate to improved economic or social benefits, countering the current South African policy objective of upliftment and empowerment through the provision of housing.</jats:p>en_US
dc.format.extent19 pen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherProject MUSEen_US
dc.relation.ispartofTransformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa; Vol. 112, Issue 1en_US
dc.subjectHome ownershipen_US
dc.subjectPropertyen_US
dc.titleThe cost of ownership : learning from Flamingo Court, a former social housing apartment block in Durbanen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.date.updated2024-08-15T08:37:10Z-
dc.publisher.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1353/trn.2023.a926451en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1353/trn.2023.a926451-
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