We are hiring a research director in my department. facebook.com/share/WY369Nchp…
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Please join us for this seminar!
The HSRC and the University of the Free State (UFS) invite you to join a public seminar on housing and urban economic development in Southern Africa.
📅 5 AUG 2024
⏰ 13:30 - 15:30
📍 University of the Free State, and virtual via Zoom
Register: loom.ly/ugTyJ-0
A short Op Ed about our new social housing portal. dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
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Do you, or somebody you know, work on informal rental housing in urban Africa? Please join us at the African Urbanism conference in October at Wits! Submit your abstract before 21st April! urban-sdg-school.org/african…
Are you working on urban vacancy, occupation or commoning? Please submit an abstract and join us for Session 28 at the African Urbanisms Conference at Wits University in October! Deadline is 21 April!
Session is co-organised with @suraya_scheba and builds on our @USForg Seminar Series! Further details here: urban-sdg-school.org/african…
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New Open Access Article with Ivan Turok and Margot Rubin: Inclusionary Housing Policy in Cities of the South: Navigating a Path Between Continuity and Disruption tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
New article on inclusionary housing policy is out. Thanks to Ivan Turok and Margot Rubin for leading this output from our collaborative research.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Very happy to have contributed a short article on financialization in Africa's urban periphery in this latest issue of Urban Geography!
📣New Issue Drop📢 44.5 is stacked with amazing critical, engaged and comparative urban geography scholarship from around the world 🌎🌍🌏! urbangeographyjournal.org/jo… Which of these papers makes it to the top of your TBR?
Great piece by @adi_kumar_1 and @Nickbud_021
Perhaps the most shocking failure of intergovernmental collaboration on housing is that 668ha of high-potential land in Cape Town is sitting largely vacant and underutilised under the custodianship of the Department of Defence. dailymaverick.co.za/opinioni…
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Likewise, I am super excited! Thanks to @USForg
Very honoured & excited to win one of these @USForg seminar series awards with @suraya_scheba @AndreasScheba @KathleenStokes and other great scholars to host a set of workshops on Vacancy, Occupation & Commoning and bringing together cities in Latin America, Europe & South Africa
Excited to see this article published! Let me know your thoughts on housing microfinance in Africa's urban peripheries! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Join us for a webinar on the construction mafia in South Africa. 5th April from 11 am to 1 pm. A line up of great speakers await. Open to everyone! Register at: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
Short piece on COVID-19 and Occupations/Evictions with @suraya_scheba @nate_millington @stellapater Diana Sanchez Betancourt and John Giraldo Diaz
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Thanks so much for having us on your podcast. I very much enjoyed the experience!
🎧‼️🎧 Ep14 of the Housing Journal Podcast now up! We chat to @AndreasScheba & Ivan Turok from @HSRCza /@UFSUpdates about their paper on 'The role of institutions in social housing provision: salutary lessons from the South', & much more... soundcloud.com/user-21877277…
Important piece of work by @Nickbud_021 and @IsandlaInst on policy interventions for the informal backyard rental sector! Well done.
Informal backyard rental housing continues to grow every year, yet it has remained largely invisible to public policy. In some recent work with @IsandlaInst, we put forward a set of policy interventions and describe which sphere of government is responsible for implementation.
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