- Title
- The right to adequate housing and its effective implementation in South Africa
- Creator
- Ntseto, Ntokozo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5667-9436
- Subject
- Right to housing -- South Africa
- Subject
- Housing policy -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2021-12
- Date
- 2021-12
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/28195
- Identifier
- vital:73814
- Description
- As stated in article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the right to access to adequate housing is one of the most fundamental human rights as it informs the right to a decent standard of living. In 1996, the Republic of South Africa adopted a Constitution which sought to secure the right to access adequate housing. Despite the constitutional protection of this right, a number of challenges remain within the South African context where there are a lot of inequalities and a skyrocketing population. Through desktop review and jurisprudential analysis, this study examined if the right to access to adequate housing is being implemented effectively. This was done by looking at the provision of housing during the apartheid era and post 1994 in the new Constitutional era, up to the year 2020. The study has examined the available legal and policy framework for housing, in light of international and regional standards, as well as the strategies and programmes that have been put in place to ensure that everyone has access to adequate housing, and how effective the programmes have been. Such programmes include Reconstruction Development Programme (RDP) housing, subsidy housing and other forms of housing that have been put in place in South Africa. There have been many milestones but there are still a lot of obstacles to overcome. Mass protests and cases brought before South African courts often demonstrate this. The South African government has done a commendable job, but much more needs to be done because the country's population is increasing rapidly. The study then recommends how the challenges can be addressed to promote effective implementation of the right to access adequate housing. This includes a programme where the unemployed youth will be equipped with skills to build and maintain RDP houses, a housing framework of allocating houses based on the number of people in each household and lastly, a system which prohibits fraud within the housing delivery system.
- Description
- Thesis (MPhil) -- Faculty of Law, 2021
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (ii, 91 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Law
- Language
- English
- Rights
- rights holder
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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