Table of contents - Special Issue: African housing markets
Guest Editors: Professor Richard Reed
Access to housing finance by the urban poor: The case of WAT‐SACCOS in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Alphonce Kyessi, Germain FurahaAny attempt to improve housing quality goes concurrently with improvement of income level and with economic development. The purpose of this paper is to assess the viability of…
Mixed‐income housing development strategy: Perspective on Cosmo City, Johannesburg, South Africa
George Okechukwu OnatuHigh rates of urbanization have concentrated housing needs in urban areas. This has resulted in a large‐scale housing and service backlog. The rapid growth in housing demand…
The Ghanaian transaction‐based residential indices
Wilfred K. Anim‐Odame, Tony Key, Simon StevensonThe purpose of this paper is to provide technically robust indicators of housing market performance from the records held by the Ghana Land Valuation Board, through the…
Lessons learned from in situ upgrading and eradication of informal settlement in Gauteng Province in South Africa
Clinton Ohls Aigbavboa, Wellington D. ThwalaThe purpose of this paper is to give an insight into lessons learned so far on the in situ upgrading and eradication of informal settlements in South Africa. This is with a view…
Housing development finance through cooperative societies: The case of Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Matthew Oluwole OyewoleThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the contribution of cooperative societies to housing finance for the urban low income group in Ogbomoso, Oyo state of Nigeria. This is…
Medium‐term property rights and urban poverty in Minna
Isaac Ayodele OlatunjiThe purpose of this paper is to examine the medium‐term tenure option, in capital valuation terms, through an empirical study of 232 households in 39 tenement properties in…
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- Dr Richard Reed