Satisfaction level with neighbourhoods in low-income housing : a case study of Johannesburg, South Africa
- Aigbavboa, Clinton, Thwala, Wellington Didibhuku
- Authors: Aigbavboa, Clinton , Thwala, Wellington Didibhuku
- Date: 2012
- Subjects: Residential satisfaction , Neighbourhood , Low-income housing - South Africa - Gauteng
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:4687 , ISSN 978-0-620-54069-8 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/10472
- Description: For the past 17 years, the South Africa government has been providing housing schemes for the low-income and disadvantaged group. These low-income housing schemes have not, however, been holistically evaluated. Based on a post occupancy evaluation protocol of occupant survey of low-income housing scheme in Johannesburg, South Africa, the article presents the beneficiaries’ judgement and assessment of the environment in which they are living. Face-to-face interview with 78 occupants revealed that they attached great importance to the level of satisfaction with their neighbourhoods. The most important factor associated with their neighbourhood satisfaction was privacy, which was a reflection of their previously living background.
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- Authors: Aigbavboa, Clinton , Thwala, Wellington Didibhuku
- Date: 2012
- Subjects: Residential satisfaction , Neighbourhood , Low-income housing - South Africa - Gauteng
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:4687 , ISSN 978-0-620-54069-8 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/10472
- Description: For the past 17 years, the South Africa government has been providing housing schemes for the low-income and disadvantaged group. These low-income housing schemes have not, however, been holistically evaluated. Based on a post occupancy evaluation protocol of occupant survey of low-income housing scheme in Johannesburg, South Africa, the article presents the beneficiaries’ judgement and assessment of the environment in which they are living. Face-to-face interview with 78 occupants revealed that they attached great importance to the level of satisfaction with their neighbourhoods. The most important factor associated with their neighbourhood satisfaction was privacy, which was a reflection of their previously living background.
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Race, place and everyday life in contemporary South Africa : Wentworth, Durban
- Authors: Desai, Ashwin
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Wentworth , Flats , Neighbourhood
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/289515 , uj:31413 , Citation: Desai, A. 2018. Race, place and everyday life in contemporary South Africa : Wentworth, Durban. Urban Forum (2018) 29:369–381 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-018-9350-7
- Description: Abstract: Local government in South Africa witnessed major deracialisation and the emergence of large metros post-1994. In Durban for example, there was the creation of eThekwini metro that brought 40 separate jurisdictions under the banner of one administration (Freund, Urban Forum, 21(3), 283–298, 2010). Despite this administrative deracialisation, apartheid group areas have largely remained intact. Drawing on primary qualitative data research and participant observation, this article explores issues of place, belonging and identity in the flatlands of Wentworth, a place set aside for coloureds in the early 1960s. Residents’ attitudes towards Wentworth are complex and often contradictory: feelings of alienation contend with a deep attachment to place and a sense that the flats are an asset to be handed down to the next generation. What emerges from interviews conducted with the residents is that the demise of legally demarcated racial boundaries has reinforced a kind of ‘territorial belonging’, as Wentonians increasingly feel alienated from the broader body politic (Bauder, Antipode, 48(2), 252–271, 2016: 255).
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- Authors: Desai, Ashwin
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Wentworth , Flats , Neighbourhood
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/289515 , uj:31413 , Citation: Desai, A. 2018. Race, place and everyday life in contemporary South Africa : Wentworth, Durban. Urban Forum (2018) 29:369–381 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-018-9350-7
- Description: Abstract: Local government in South Africa witnessed major deracialisation and the emergence of large metros post-1994. In Durban for example, there was the creation of eThekwini metro that brought 40 separate jurisdictions under the banner of one administration (Freund, Urban Forum, 21(3), 283–298, 2010). Despite this administrative deracialisation, apartheid group areas have largely remained intact. Drawing on primary qualitative data research and participant observation, this article explores issues of place, belonging and identity in the flatlands of Wentworth, a place set aside for coloureds in the early 1960s. Residents’ attitudes towards Wentworth are complex and often contradictory: feelings of alienation contend with a deep attachment to place and a sense that the flats are an asset to be handed down to the next generation. What emerges from interviews conducted with the residents is that the demise of legally demarcated racial boundaries has reinforced a kind of ‘territorial belonging’, as Wentonians increasingly feel alienated from the broader body politic (Bauder, Antipode, 48(2), 252–271, 2016: 255).
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