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dc.contributor.author | Thwala, W.D.![]() |
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dc.contributor.other | IAHS World Congress on Housing (33rd : 2005 : Pretoria, South Africa) | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-06-04T12:51:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-06-04T12:51:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005-09 | |
dc.description | Authors of papers in the proceedings and CD-ROM ceded copyright to the IAHS and UP. Authors furthermore declare that papers are their original work, not previously published and take responsibility for copyrighted excerpts from other works, included in their papers with due acknowledgment in the written manuscript. Furthermore, that papers describe genuine research or review work, contain no defamatory or unlawful statements and do not infringe the rights of others. The IAHS and UP may assign any or all of its rights and obligations under this agreement. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Paper presented at the XXXIII IAHS World Congress on Housing, 27-30 September 2005,"Transforming Housing Environments through Design", University of Pretoria. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Poverty and unemployment are problems that South Africa has not been able to overcome successfully. In the urban areas, poverty has led to the growth of Informal Settlements which are basically, but not necessarily so, residential areas for the low-income groups. The most noted cause of Informal Settlements is high migration from rural areas by people who are in search of job opportunities and better living conditions than what is available in the rural areas. This has led to more demand for low cost housing in most urban areas in South Africa. History has shown that labour-based methods of work have long been used in creating remarkable infrastructure works. Labour-intensive programmes generate more direct and indirect local employment opportunities and income by using locally available inputs (materials, simple tools and local labour) and thus creating a greater demand for local products and services than do high-technology programmes reliant on imported technology and equipment. Investment in low cost housing has a huge potential to redress the high unemployment and poverty levels in South Africa and also to correct the skill deficits in disadvantaged communities. From a theoretical perspective supported by experience elsewhere in Africa, there are reasons for considering that properly formulated labour-intensive programmes could be established to construct and maintain the required physical infrastructure, thus creating employment, skills and institutional capacities. The paper looks at the experiences, problems and outlines the potential contribution of employment creation programmes in alleviating the unemployment problem in other African countries through the construction of low cost housing through the use of labour-intensive methods. The paper then describes the potential and problems that have been encountered in South Africa in relation to employment creation through the construction of low cost housing. The paper closes with some recommendations for the future. | en |
dc.format.extent | Presentation consists of 10 pages. | en_US |
dc.format.medium | This paper was transformed from the original CD ROM created for this conference. The material on the CD ROM was published using Adobe Acrobat technology. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Thwala, WD 2005, 'Employment creation through the provision of low cost housing in South Africa', paper presented at XXXIII IAHS World Congress on Housing 2005 - Transforming Housing Environments through Design (HUE), University of Pretoria. | en_US |
dc.identifier.isbn | 1-86854-627-6 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/10371 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | IAHS | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright shared by: International Association for Housing Science, Coral Gables/Miami, Florida 33134, USA University of Pretoria (UP), Hillcrest, Pretoria 0002, South Africa | en_US |
dc.subject | Low-cost housing | en |
dc.subject | Informal settlements | en |
dc.subject | Labour-intensive programmes | en |
dc.subject | Disadvantaged communities | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Housing -- Congresses | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | House construction -- Economic aspects -- Congresses | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Architecture, Domestic -- Economic aspects -- South Africa -- Congresses | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Unemployment -- Congresses | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Poverty -- Congresses | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Infrastructure (Economics) -- Congresses | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Job creation -- South Africa -- Congresses | en |
dc.title | Employment creation through the provision of low cost housing in South Africa | en_US |
dc.type | Event | en_US |
dc.type | Presentation | en_US |