Browsing Housing by Author "Huchzermeyer, Marie"

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Challenges Facing People-Driven Development in the Context of a Strong, Delivery-Oriented State: Joe Slovo Village, Port Elizabeth

Huchzermeyer, Marie (Springerlink. Urban Forum, Vol. 17, No. 1, January-March 2006., 2006-01)

The Joe Slovo settlement process on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape was, in the first instance, about securing land and housing for a large number of desperate people, living in intolerable conditions ...
Comment on General Notice 1851 of 2006 - Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Amendment Bill 2006

Huchzermeyer, Marie (http://abahlali.org/files/huchzermeyer%20PIE%20Act%20amendment-comment-16-02-07.pdf, 2007)

In 2006, she co-edited a book (UCT Press) titled ‘Informal Settlements: A Perpetual Challenge?’ which seeks to promote in situ upgrading of informal settlements in South Africa and to provide a wide understanding of the ...
Does recent litigation bring us any closer to a right to the city?

Huchzermeyer, Marie (University of Johannesburg, Workshop., 2009-10-30)

"...the right to the city that our Constitution strives for is one of an equal right to the city. This has important components - Equal right to participate in decision-making - Equal right to access and use the city - Equal ...
Enumeration as a Grassroot Tool Towards Securing Tenure in Slums: Insights from Kisumu, Kenya

Huchzermeyer, Marie (Urban Forum (2009) 20:271–292, 2009)

Community-based slum enumeration was carried out in Kisumu from 2005 to 2008 as part of a city-wide slum-upgrading initiative. This paper analyses this enumeration exercise particularly in relation to land management and ...
Enumeration as a grassroot tool towards. Independent report of a peer evaluation mission to Kisumu 2-4 October 2007.

Huchzermeyer, Marie (GLOBAL Landtool Network, UN Habitat, 2008)

Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) recognises community-based slum enumeration as a potential grassroots mechanism tool which could assist in achieving its objectives relating to land management and tenure security. This ...
From dominance to diversity in international cooperation: a view from South Africa

Huchzermeyer, Marie (NA-ERUS. Network-Association of European Researchers on Urbanisation in the South. http://www.naerus.net, 2003-05-17)

Critical research in the 1970s and 1980s in South Africa played an important role in exposing the implications of repressive and discriminatory urban policy and management. This critical urban research movement, which ...
From ‘‘contravention of laws’’ to ‘‘lack of rights’’: redefining the problem of informal settlements in South Africa

Huchzermeyer, Marie (Elsevier, 2004)

Informal urban land occupation in South Africa is treated in a technocratic manner, consistent with the policy of orderly urbanisation introduced in the 1980s. This approach focusses on the contravention of laws governing ...
Housing for the poor? Negotiated housing policy

Huchzermeyer, Marie (Elsevier, 2001)

Official discussion and negotiation on housing policy in South Africa was closed in 1994 with the launch of the new Housing White Paper. Contradictions in this policy between housing procedure and delivery target have ...
Housing Rights in South Africa: Invasions, Evictions, the Media, and the Courts in the Cases of Grootboom, Alexandra, and Bredell

Huchzermeyer, Marie (SpringerLink. Urban Forum, 2003)

Low-income residents in urban South Africa have made use of the courts to fight for what they perceive as their democratic right to a home in the city. Despite a democratic Constitution since 1996, with a Bill of Rights ...
Policy Aspects for Informal Settlements in South Africa

Huchzermeyer, Marie (Paper presented at the South African National Housing Summit, Gallagher Estate, 2003-11-19)

No doubt this conference will draw much attention to the important moment we’re approaching in South Africa, of having spent one decade building a new democracy. Indeed, various spheres of government are reviewing their ...
Ruling in Abahlali case lays solid foundation to build on

Huchzermeyer, Marie (Defend Freedom - Democracy under Attack, Church Land Programme, Pietermaritzburg. 04 November 2009, 2009-11-04)

ABAHLALI baseMjondolo hit the headlines recently. First, attacks on Durban’s Kennedy Road informal settlement drew a ground swell of newsworthy international condemnation, including a statement from US intellectual Noam ...
Settlement informality: The importance of understanding change, formality, land and the informal economy.

Huchzermeyer, Marie (Groupement de Recherche Internationale (GDRI). Workshop on Informality, Wits University. Johannesburg, 2008-07-03)

It is widely acknowledged that informal settlements and the processes that lead to their formation and perpetuation are poorly understood (see Environment and Urbanization, 1998; Roy, 2005; Smit, 2006; Misselhorn, 2008). ...
'Slum' Upgrading and 'Slum' Eradication under MDG Seven Target Eleven

Huchzermeyer, Marie (University of Rhodes. Sociology., 2008)

The modest MDG target on improving the lives of ‘slum’ dwellers occupies a complex and in some ways contradictory terrain. This chapter reviews the usage of the term ‘slum’ and its adoption into the Millennium Development ...
The struggle for in situ upgrading of informal settlements: Case studies from Gauteng

Huchzermeyer, Marie (Development Southern Africa, 2009)

Department of Housing released a new Informal Settlement Upgrading Programme in 2004, which makes in situ upgrading of informal settlements possible with minimal disruption to residents’ lives. To date, the new programme ...

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