Report on slum clearance and the ability of Europeans to pay an economic rent in a small South African city
- Authors: Irving, James
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Slums -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Whites -- South Africa -- Economic conditions Grahamstown (South Africa) -- History Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Economic conditions Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Social conditions
- Language: English
- Type: Book , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2565 , vital:20304
- Description: In this paper an analysis is developed of the characteristics of a group of Europeans who have been declared to be living in houses unfit for habitation in terms of the criteria laid down in the Slums Act No. 53 of 1934. It is assumed, for purposes of analysis, that the group will be transferred to municipal housing and that, like the Coloured and Africans in the City of Grahamstown, economic rent scales will be applied. This paper is, therefore, concerned with the present condition of the tenants in the slum but is predictive in terms of what will most probably happen if they are transferred to better municipally owned housing under economic rentals. The specific reasons why economic rent, without subsidisation, is likely to be applied to this group need not concern us in this paper. Even if an economic rent is not applied the discussion is held to be of value so far as sets up standards and techniques by which levels of subsidisation, if applied, might be measured. Further, the data is held to be factually interesting so far as it relates to the poverty of Europeans on which, little has been written for some years. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Irving, James
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Slums -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Whites -- South Africa -- Economic conditions Grahamstown (South Africa) -- History Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Economic conditions Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Social conditions
- Language: English
- Type: Book , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2565 , vital:20304
- Description: In this paper an analysis is developed of the characteristics of a group of Europeans who have been declared to be living in houses unfit for habitation in terms of the criteria laid down in the Slums Act No. 53 of 1934. It is assumed, for purposes of analysis, that the group will be transferred to municipal housing and that, like the Coloured and Africans in the City of Grahamstown, economic rent scales will be applied. This paper is, therefore, concerned with the present condition of the tenants in the slum but is predictive in terms of what will most probably happen if they are transferred to better municipally owned housing under economic rentals. The specific reasons why economic rent, without subsidisation, is likely to be applied to this group need not concern us in this paper. Even if an economic rent is not applied the discussion is held to be of value so far as sets up standards and techniques by which levels of subsidisation, if applied, might be measured. Further, the data is held to be factually interesting so far as it relates to the poverty of Europeans on which, little has been written for some years. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Date Issued: 1959
Report on the relation of economic rent and household income in municipal housing schemes for the Coloured people of Grahamstown
- Authors: Irving, James
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Public housing -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Colored people (South Africa) -- Housing Income -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Colored people (South Africa) -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Economic conditions Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Social conditions
- Language: English
- Type: Book , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2552 , vital:20303
- Description: The City Council's Non-European Affairs Committee honoured me in August, 1957, by permitting me to appear before it to present a research report on the transference of Coloured people to its new housing estates. The report was offered verbally, but I was asked to prepare and submit a report confined to 34 households then under eviction orders: this report on "Non-payment of rent by Coloured householders in the new housing schemes of Grahamstown Municipality" was considered at a later date by Council and various recommendations were adopted. Representatives of the City Council discussed the possible methods of meeting the situation which had arisen with Central Government officers. It was agreed later that I be asked to develop a systematic study of the problems on a wider scale and that this report be submitted to the Central Government on its completion. In conformity with this request I submit the present report. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Irving, James
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Public housing -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Colored people (South Africa) -- Housing Income -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Colored people (South Africa) -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Economic conditions Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Social conditions
- Language: English
- Type: Book , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2552 , vital:20303
- Description: The City Council's Non-European Affairs Committee honoured me in August, 1957, by permitting me to appear before it to present a research report on the transference of Coloured people to its new housing estates. The report was offered verbally, but I was asked to prepare and submit a report confined to 34 households then under eviction orders: this report on "Non-payment of rent by Coloured householders in the new housing schemes of Grahamstown Municipality" was considered at a later date by Council and various recommendations were adopted. Representatives of the City Council discussed the possible methods of meeting the situation which had arisen with Central Government officers. It was agreed later that I be asked to develop a systematic study of the problems on a wider scale and that this report be submitted to the Central Government on its completion. In conformity with this request I submit the present report. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Date Issued: 1958