- Title
- Enhanced peoples housing process and income generation: a case study of the Vulindlela self-help housing programme in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
- Creator
- Mosiea, Tshepang Handsome
- Subject
- House of the People
- Subject
- Revenue-generating
- Subject
- Housing programme -- KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
- Date Issued
- 2023-04
- Date
- 2023-04
- Type
- Doctoral's theses
- Type
- Thesis
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/66206
- Identifier
- vital:74432
- Description
- The study presented in this thesis examines the effects of the Vulindlela self-help housing programme’s governmentality on income-generating opportunities by beneficiaries; the rationale and assumptions underpinning the self-help housing programme; and evaluates whether the programme was implemented according to policy. The study also investigates the relationship between the Vulindlela self-help housing programme’s beneficiary involvement, beneficiary satisfaction, and skills development provided by the programme on income opportunities for beneficiaries. Using the empirical case study of the Vulindlela self-help housing programme in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, this study verifies the EPHP’s view that self-help housing programmes provide fertile ground for livelihoods, income generation and asset ownership. The study is underpinned by the interpretivist paradigm, which relies on qualitative and quantitative data, comprising primary data (individual key-informant interviews and survey data); as well as secondary qualitative data from desktop research. It utilises a Foucauldian approach, in which the rationalities and practices of the self-help housing programme, and the effects of the technologies of self, power, self-esteem, self-responsibilisation and the market, are evaluated to see how these factors have influenced income generation by beneficiaries in one of the largest self-help housing policy programmes in SA. These technologies are examined in the context of the Vulindlela programme using Foucault’s theory of governmentality. The findings confirm that the Vulindlela programme was implemented according to its policy. However, not all aspects of the policy programme were understood or may have been implemented during the programme. As such, not all participants (i.e. housing beneficiaries, government officials and cooperative directors) understood the intended outcomes nor how these policy outcomes would be realised. Despite many challenges that confronted the implementation of the Vulindlela self-help housing programme, the study concludes that the governmentality of the Vulindlela self-help housing programme had a positive impact on income opportunities for beneficiaries. The programme is one that finds itself held between two contradicting rationalities: neoliberal aspirations (provision of market and income opportunities for cooperatives that vii act as contractors), and moral aspirations (initiating empowerment of disadvantaged beneficiaries/ community development). The rationale behind the Vulindlela self-help housing programme was about providing income opportunities for beneficiaries and was heavily influenced by the neoliberal ideas of the UN-Habitat and the World Bank. Key policy recommendations, informed by implementation challenges of the Vulindlela programme, are offered for policy adjustments, as well as a conceptual framework for the design and implementation of self-help housing programmes to realise intended policy outcomes, that is income generation by housing beneficiaries and enhancement of local economic opportunities through the programme.
- Description
- Thesis (PhD) -- Faculty of Engineering Built Environment and Technology, School of Built Environment and Civil Engineering, 2023
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- Format
- 1 online resource (xvii, 315 pages)
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Engineering Built Environment and Technology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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