By Adrian Lo (Thammasat University) and Karin Kalinta (Thammasat University) | As the world rapidly urbanizes, with an expected 7 billion people living in cities by 2050, some three billion people will be living in informal settlements or inadequate housing. Moreover 50% of urban employment is found in the informal economy. Though seen as a […]
By Raffael Beier (TU Dortmund University) | Since 1994, South Africa’s government has significantly invested in the provision of low-cost housing as a means to fight the legacy of apartheid. The provision of ‘free housing’ for homeownership to non-white urban poor should not only fight informal housing and historical inequality but also promote socio-economic progress […]
By Daniela Beltrame, Joaquin Benitez, Karenna Groff, and Amelia Seabold (University of Buenos Aires) | Most of the literature in development and urban studies relies uncomfortably on an English lexicon to refer to neighborhoods with substandard built environments and insecure forms of tenure in the Global South. Practitioners and researchers alike have pointed to the […]