Shapurjee, YCharlton, S2014-03-112014-03-112013-11Shapurjee, Y and Charlton, S. 2013. Transforming South Africa’s low-income housing projects through backyard dwellings: Intersections with households and the state in Alexandra, Johannesburg. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, vol. 28(4), pp 653-6661566-4910http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10901-013-9350-9http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7280Copyright: 2013 Springer. This is the Pre/post print version. The definitive version is published in Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, vol. 28(4), pp 653-666South Africa’s ‘housing programme’ transfers a fully-funded serviced site and house to qualifying beneficiaries with aims of progressively addressing poverty through homeownership. Despite delivering close to 3 million houses since 1994, informal housing persists, featuring even in some of these new neighbourhoods. This paper focuses on the intersection between a particular mode of informal housing, backyard dwellings, and state-subsidised low-income housing projects. Backyard dwellings arguably contradict state housing objectives by symbolising informality and disorder; a symptom of inadequacy that the housing programme strives to overcome. We consider first the views and experiences of landlords (owners of state-subsided houses) and tenants (occupiers of privately-provided backyard dwellings) in a section of Alexandra, Johannesburg. We then reflect on the potential of backyard accommodation within post-apartheid housing delivery, arguing that despite challenges, the phenomenon of planned, state-led infrastructure generating secondary accommodation represents an opportunity rather than an example of failed modernity. South Africa’s backyard dwellings resonate with similar forms of self-funded and managed rental stock across the global South. As a quick, flexible and regenerative housing asset, cumulative acceptance of such rental markets is necessary – along with viewing the driving actors as astute innovators in shelter and livelihood provision.enAlexandraBackyard dwellingLow-income housingRental housingState infrastructureArticleShapurjee, Y., & Charlton, S. (2013). Transforming South Africa’s low-income housing projects through backyard dwellings: Intersections with households and the state in Alexandra, Johannesburg. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7280Shapurjee, Y, and S Charlton "Transforming South Africa’s low-income housing projects through backyard dwellings: Intersections with households and the state in Alexandra, Johannesburg." (2013) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7280Shapurjee Y, Charlton S. Transforming South Africa’s low-income housing projects through backyard dwellings: Intersections with households and the state in Alexandra, Johannesburg. 2013; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7280.TY - Article AU - Shapurjee, Y AU - Charlton, S AB - South Africa’s ‘housing programme’ transfers a fully-funded serviced site and house to qualifying beneficiaries with aims of progressively addressing poverty through homeownership. Despite delivering close to 3 million houses since 1994, informal housing persists, featuring even in some of these new neighbourhoods. This paper focuses on the intersection between a particular mode of informal housing, backyard dwellings, and state-subsidised low-income housing projects. Backyard dwellings arguably contradict state housing objectives by symbolising informality and disorder; a symptom of inadequacy that the housing programme strives to overcome. We consider first the views and experiences of landlords (owners of state-subsided houses) and tenants (occupiers of privately-provided backyard dwellings) in a section of Alexandra, Johannesburg. We then reflect on the potential of backyard accommodation within post-apartheid housing delivery, arguing that despite challenges, the phenomenon of planned, state-led infrastructure generating secondary accommodation represents an opportunity rather than an example of failed modernity. South Africa’s backyard dwellings resonate with similar forms of self-funded and managed rental stock across the global South. As a quick, flexible and regenerative housing asset, cumulative acceptance of such rental markets is necessary – along with viewing the driving actors as astute innovators in shelter and livelihood provision. DA - 2013-11 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Alexandra KW - Backyard dwelling KW - Low-income housing KW - Rental housing KW - State infrastructure LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2013 SM - 1566-4910 T1 - Transforming South Africa’s low-income housing projects through backyard dwellings: Intersections with households and the state in Alexandra, Johannesburg TI - Transforming South Africa’s low-income housing projects through backyard dwellings: Intersections with households and the state in Alexandra, Johannesburg UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7280 ER -