Informal settlements

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    Enumeration report : Hlazo village informal settlement pocket
    (City of Cape Town, 2017) City of Cape Town
    Hlazo village is an informal settlement located in Gugulethu. The settlement consists of 32 dwellings that are located on two 500sqm properties, namely erven 88 and 57 on 60 Amplankeni Crescent. The current land use designation in the City of Cape Town Municipal Planning By-Law is General Business 4. The surrounding land uses are mostly Single Residential A number of backyard shacks are built on most of the residential properties. The settlement is located 19km south east of the Cape Town CBD. The Western Cape Government Department of Human Settlements appointed the Community Organisation Resource Centre (CORC), through a competitive tender process, to conduct an in-depth enumeration of Hlazo Village, which forms part of the Airport Informal Settlement Precinct consisting of ten (10) informal settlements, namely, Barcelona, Gxagxa, Lusaka, Kanana, Vukuzenzele, Europe, Thabo Mbeki, KTC, Tsunami IDA/TRA, and Hlazo Village. Kosovo was also enumerated as a priority project in the souther corridor. CORC works in partnership with the Federation of the Urban and Rural Poor and the Informal Settlement Network, who mobilised, trained and provided on-going support to Hlazo Village community members to act as enumerators in this study.
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    Gauteng : informal settlements status
    (The Housing Development Agency (HDA), 2012) The Housing Development Agency (HDA)
    The Housing Development Agency (HDA), is mandated to assist organs of State with the upgrading of informal settlements. The HDA therefore commissioned this study to investigate the availability of data and to analyse this data relating to the profile, status and trends in informal settlements in South Africa, nationally and provincially as well as for some of the larger municipalities. This report summarises available data for the province of Gauteng.
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    Mentoring on upgrading informal settlements
    (Municipal Institute of Learning (MILE) eThekwini Municipality, 2014) Municipal Institute of Learning (MILE) eThekwini Municipality
    The purpose of this programme has been to understand and learn how the City of Sao Paulo has achieved breakthroughs, constructed, converted and manipulated their “favelas” that have grown exponentially in Brazil’s urban environment over the decades. The City of Sao Paulo and eThekwini Municipality have achieved important milestones with regards to the provision of housing. However, eThekwini’s emphasis has been providing housing units whilst the provision of social, recreational, public transport, cultural and economic facilities has not been satisfactory prioritised. Learning from the Sao Paulo experience will enhance eThekwini’s future efforts of upgrading informal settlements and transforming them into viable places to reside.
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    Western Cape : informal settlements status (2013)
    (The Housing Development Agency (HDA), 2013) The Housing Development Agency (HDA)
    The Housing Development Agency (“HDA”) is mandated to assist organs of State with the upgrading of informal settlements. As part of the informal settlements upgrading programme, the HDA commissioned this report to update existing analysis on the profile of informal settlements in South Africa, nationally and provincially as well as for some of the larger municipalities. The analysis draws heavily on newly released Census 2011 data and also explores other data sources available at a national, provincial and municipal level to characterise conditions in informal settlements and to identify key trends. This report summarises available data for the Western Cape province.