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来源

JOURNAL OF HOUSING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT,Vol.33,Issue4,P.843-860

语言

英文

关键字

Black middle class; Housing careers; Housing quality; Housing states; South Africa; YOUNG-PEOPLE; POLICY; PATHWAYS; MOBILITY; MARKET; SECTOR; SOWETO

作者单位

[Marais, Lochner; Hoekstra, Joris; Napier, Mark; Cloete, Jan; Lenka, Molefi] Univ Free State, Ctr Dev Support, POB 339, ZA-9300 Bloemfontein, South Africa. [Hoekstra, Joris] Delft Univ Technol, Delft, Netherlands. [Napier, Mark] Council Ind & Sci Res, Pretoria, South Africa. Marais, L (reprint author), Univ Free State, Ctr Dev Support, POB 339, ZA-9300 Bloemfontein, South Africa. E-Mail: MaraisJGL@ufs.ac.za

摘要

Under apartheid, black African households could not own land or homes in most major urban centres in South Africa. This limited residential mobility and locked many households into state rental accommodation in townships. Homeownership for all South Africans was restored in the mid-1980 s and the Group Areas Act was repealed in 1991. Democracy opened up economic opportunities previously unavailable to black people. This paper investigates the effect on black middle-class South African households' residential mobility and housing careers. A retrospective cross-sectional survey of 244 such homeowners in the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality determined their last five housing states. Changes in housing state indicated a steady improvement in housing quality, but tenure changes were not necessarily unidirectional-some had reverted to rental. More than 85% of the study participants had used mortgages to finance their housing career. Very few had financed their housing using own savings, an inheritance, or sale of a previous house, and not many had used the government subsidy. We found that housing careers are bridging the historical spatial racial divide in this municipality.