By Alain Durand-Lasserve, Lauren Royston
Defense of land tenure for the city negative is quick changing into one of many significant difficulties for constructing towns in Africa, Asia and Latin the US. in keeping with broad study this e-book provides and analyses the most conclusions of a comparative study software on land tenure matters. in accordance with huge case experiences, it supplies a comparative viewpoint of land tenure at a world point. It seems to be at how strategies are available and carried out to reply to the calls for and desires of nearly all of city families dwelling in casual settlements, and analyses how city stakeholders, less than specific social, felony and fiscal constraints, are devising and using leading edge and versatile responses.''Holding Their Ground'' fills a niche within the present literature on comparative examine on tenure guidelines and should be worthwhile to researchers, and execs all for defining and instigating tenure upgrading rules and courses.
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Other initiatives, such as the privatization of public housing stock in former townships and attempts to address the formal system constraints to land development (most notably the Development Facilitation Act), are also important. In South Africa the housing subsidy scheme is the only instrument for tenure intervention. Predominantly greenfield in nature, the majority of projects result in the provision of individual ownership. The impact of the promising ‘People’s Housing Process’, which promotes a people-driven approach to informal settlement upgrading, remains to be seen.
The cost recovery imperative of privatization requires greater community participation, which is in turn necessary for monitoring the quality of services provided by the private sector (Mahadevia, 2000). The national housing policy, approved by parliament in 1994, marks a turning point in Indian housing policy. It aims to promote a more equal distribution of land and houses in urban and rural areas, and to curb speculation in land and housing in harmony with macro-economic policies for efficient and equitable growth (Agrawala, 1996).
National, provincial and local government are distinctive, interdependent and interrelated, although the role of local government is still evolving as it develops in practice over time (Republic of South Africa, 1998). South Africa’s white paper on local government establishes the objective of developmental local government in terms of which municipalities play the central role in representing communities, protecting human rights and meeting basic needs (ibid). The standardized housing response in South Africa leaves little room for local alternatives, whether defined municipally or by urban informal communities.
