Informal Transactions of Low Income Houses in South Africa (Paperback)

Paperback. Through a series of intricate informal processes and human-centric institutional arrangements, beneficiaries of South African government-subsidized housing force formally registered properties into informality. Sandile Mbatha explores the concept of informality in relation to how such beneficiaries challenge predominant understandings of property relations. These practices are embedded in complex urban tenure dynamics that prevail in post-colonial societies; societies, in which the state's imposition of predominantly western forms of tenure and property rights ignore the anthropological nature of housing. A study of informal transactions of low-income housing in South Africa. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.