State ambitions and peoples' practices : an exploration of RDP housing in Johannesburg

South Africa’s RDP housing programme has delivered ownership of a house and serviced land to millions of first time home-owners since 1994. Intended to both provide shelter and address poverty, the housing programme is typical of improvement initiatives of the modern state aimed at advancing the phy...

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Main Author: Charlton, Sarah
Other Authors: Williams, Glyn ; Ferrari, Ed
Published: University of Sheffield 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.631413