Planetary Gentrification by Lees Loretta; Bang Shin Hyun; López-Morales Ernesto & Hyun Bang Shin & Ernesto L�pez-Morales

Author:Lees, Loretta; Bang Shin, Hyun; López-Morales, Ernesto & Hyun Bang Shin & Ernesto L�pez-Morales
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2016-03-08T05:00:00+00:00

Mixed-income housing development with the objective of redevelopment, integration along racial and social lines, and the alleviation of urban poverty and segregation, is also being undertaken in South Africa. In Johannesburg, mixed-income housing is being promoted to denounce the negative perception that the poor and rich cannot live side by side and that public-private partnerships in housing development work (see Onatu 2010). To deal with informal settlement formalization, the local government has embarked on a massive mixed housing development – Lufhereng in Soweto – a large-scale, mixed-income and mixed-tenure housing development which will comprise 24,000 mixed-income houses, with schools, clinics, sports fields and recreational facilities making up a complete, sustainable community. The name Lufhereng is derived from a Venda word ‘lufhera’ and a Sesotho word ‘reng’, which together refer to a place where people come together with a united commitment. Shaw (2011) argues that while gentrification may be an ‘elastic yet targeted’ process of what is ‘now global’…social mixing policies are not, but the cases here indicate otherwise.

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