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Caught in between policies: the intertwined challenges of access to land and housing in Gaborone, Botswana
A thorough examination of policies and guidelines tailored towards enabling access to land and housing in Gaborone suggests incongruences' inherent in these strategies. Besides, planners and policymakers' continuous oversight to recognise the complexities of the urban everyday survival strategies an...
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| author | Montsho, Oduetse |
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| description | A thorough examination of policies and guidelines tailored towards enabling access to land and housing in Gaborone suggests incongruences' inherent in these strategies. Besides, planners and policymakers' continuous oversight to recognise the complexities of the urban everyday survival strategies and the lived experiences of the populace needs to be investigated. Numerous interventions have been introduced to facilitate land and housing access for low-income households in Gaborone. Even so, restricted access to these assets remains an enormous task, proven complex and problematic to resolve. The empirical evidence specifies the predominant situation articulated by a clash of rationalities between policies and everyday socio-economic practices of access to land and housing by low income households in Gaborone. The investigation of these tensions between policies promoting access to land and housing and the advocacy of the Self-Help Housing Agency as the primary rationale for home building and ownership by low-income households in Gaborone was articulated through policy assessment and analysis. Furthermore, in-depth interviews to appreciate the affected populace's lived experiences in response to the practicality of these policies was conducted. In terms of findings, this research has established that urban environments are persistently transformed with new configurations relating to access to land and housing frequently surfacing. Moreover, urban land and housing management policies fail to get in touch with the complexities of grassroots experience with access to land and housing in Gaborone. There is also the entrenchment of low-income households in a vicious circle of poverty and living precariously at the urban fringes with no security of tenure and affordable housing opportunities. All these experiences and practices resonate with the current endeavours to evaluate the realities of accessing land and housing resources in cities, as well as their correlation with promoting livelihood strategies for low-income households. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/33858 Caught in between policies: the intertwined challenges of access to land and housing in Gaborone, Botswana Montsho, Oduetse Brown-Luthango, Mercy land and housing policies conflicting rationalities Self-Help Housing Agency lived experiences low-income households A thorough examination of policies and guidelines tailored towards enabling access to land and housing in Gaborone suggests incongruences' inherent in these strategies. Besides, planners and policymakers' continuous oversight to recognise the complexities of the urban everyday survival strategies and the lived experiences of the populace needs to be investigated. Numerous interventions have been introduced to facilitate land and housing access for low-income households in Gaborone. Even so, restricted access to these assets remains an enormous task, proven complex and problematic to resolve. The empirical evidence specifies the predominant situation articulated by a clash of rationalities between policies and everyday socio-economic practices of access to land and housing by low income households in Gaborone. The investigation of these tensions between policies promoting access to land and housing and the advocacy of the Self-Help Housing Agency as the primary rationale for home building and ownership by low-income households in Gaborone was articulated through policy assessment and analysis. Furthermore, in-depth interviews to appreciate the affected populace's lived experiences in response to the practicality of these policies was conducted. In terms of findings, this research has established that urban environments are persistently transformed with new configurations relating to access to land and housing frequently surfacing. Moreover, urban land and housing management policies fail to get in touch with the complexities of grassroots experience with access to land and housing in Gaborone. There is also the entrenchment of low-income households in a vicious circle of poverty and living precariously at the urban fringes with no security of tenure and affordable housing opportunities. All these experiences and practices resonate with the current endeavours to evaluate the realities of accessing land and housing resources in cities, as well as their correlation with promoting livelihood strategies for low-income households. 2021-09-13T09:30:26Z 2021-09-13T09:30:26Z 2021 2021-09-10T09:32:19Z Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33858 eng application/pdf Department of Environmental and Geographical Science Faculty of Science |
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| title | Caught in between policies: the intertwined challenges of access to land and housing in Gaborone, Botswana |
| title_full | Caught in between policies: the intertwined challenges of access to land and housing in Gaborone, Botswana |
| title_fullStr | Caught in between policies: the intertwined challenges of access to land and housing in Gaborone, Botswana |
| title_full_unstemmed | Caught in between policies: the intertwined challenges of access to land and housing in Gaborone, Botswana |
| title_short | Caught in between policies: the intertwined challenges of access to land and housing in Gaborone, Botswana |
| title_sort | caught in between policies the intertwined challenges of access to land and housing in gaborone botswana |
| topic | land and housing policies conflicting rationalities Self-Help Housing Agency lived experiences low-income households |
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