- Title
- Strategies for sustainable housing co-operatives in South Africa
- Creator
- Jimoh, Richard Ajayi
- Subject
- Housing, Cooperative -- South Africa
- Subject
- Housing -- South Africa
- Subject
- Sustainable development -- South Africa
- Subject
- Housing -- Finance-- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2012
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Doctoral
- Type
- PhD
- Identifier
- vital:9690
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1009500
- Identifier
- Housing, Cooperative -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Housing -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Sustainable development -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Housing -- Finance-- South Africa
- Description
- An increasing number of people are in need of housing that would improve long-term tenure for them. Private ownership is a well-known incentive for peoples’ participation in housing programmes. The current difficulties in obtaining credit for housing, following the global economic crisis, show that private individual home-ownership is not effective enough in addressing the housing needs of the low and middle income groups. As a result of this, the need to find an option that will solve the housing needs of the people became intense. However, the implementation of the co-operative housing delivery option in South Africa has not been successfully implemented as a result of the actions or the inactions of the role players. The study sought answer to the causes of the inability to successfully implement the co-operative housing approach through the use of ‘triad model’ that has to do with the ideology of co-operatives, the praxis and the organisational structures of the various housing co-operatives. The study was domiciled in a pragmatic paradigm, using the mixed methods research approach by conducting a three-stage research whereby convergent parallel design was adopted as the methodology. Questionnaires were administered to the chairpersons of the housing co-operatives identified in this stage one of the study. Stage two consisted of conducting interviews with chairpersons of six housing co-operatives using the purposive non-probability sampling method. The final stage was the survey among the members of the housing co-operatives interviewed. It was discovered, inter alia, that the membership of housing co-operatives was not voluntary; policy and legislative documents on social housing were biased against the co-operative housing approach; limited understanding of the co-operative approach exists among officials of government responsible for the implementations and a lack of training to members of the housing co-operatives by agencies of government responsible for propagating the approach was evident. Based on the findings, framework for sustainable housing co-operatives in South Africa was proposed from the strategies identified. The strategies identified were classified into the following factors: Policy and legislation; support services; education, training and information; and governance.
- Format
- xxvi, 272 leaves
- Format
- Contributor
- Van Wyk, J J
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment and Information Technology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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