Nola Green memorial lecture: 15 August 1989 - Housing associations in South Africa: A critical analysis of their potential role in the provision of shelter

Abstract

South Africa faces many serious prob­lems of which·the lack of shelter for the under-privileged is the most pressing. Millions have become back-yard and shack dwellers and as urbanisation continues apace the misery is exacer­bated. Politicisation of housing is gathering momentum and there is an urgency to come to grips with the problem. After food, shelter is man's prime need and if he is not given space to live he will find his own. The concept of squatters on the slopes of our mountains is not that far-fetched. The South African Housing Advisory Council has been charged with the task and much progress has been made in the fields of finance, engineering services, planning and building.