Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
The best thing to happen to the informal settlers of Cape Town’s Joe Slovo township began with a spark:
March 9, 2009
On 9th March 2009, a fire razed 500 shacks to the ground, and left 1,500 homeless.
(Unless otherwise captioned, all photos are from iKhayalami and cover the March 9-11 rebuilding days.)
What evolved [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 3 ,and the previous Part 2and Part 1.]
In yesterday’s post continuing our series on the enemies within of slum upgrading, we encountered the vociferous and conveniently righteous landlords, who stand to lose their questionable livelihoods when they face new, better competition. Next up are those who, for one [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from Thursday, October 29th Part 2 and the previous Part 1.]
In yesterday’s post, we discovered that despite its many palpable benefits, and the visible reality of its construction, many Kibera residents are greeting Kibera’s first slum upgrading with fear.
Kibera in 2005: Whom can you trust?
Background: A while ago [Early September – Ed.], [...]
Did you ever fight with your sibling over who got the ice cream cone, only to see it splatter onto the sidewalk?
Who ordered the large?
That’s the sinking feeling probably being experienced by the government public-private team trying to recruit developers into their Herculean effort to redevelop Mumbai’s Dharavi slum, as the global credit crunch thins [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
As we saw yesterday, the first new development in the Kibera slum upgrading has finally broken ground, nearly eight years after initial conception.
The former is supposed to be replaced by the latter
Background: A while ago [Early September – Ed.], Kenya’s newspaper The East African Standard published a great [...]
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