PUB 2604

South Africa’s housing policy has now been in place for some 20 years. It arose from debates at the National Housing Forum (NHF), a multi-party organization established in 1992 to negotiate a new non-racial housing policy and strategy. These debates focused around such issues as: whether housing should be provided by the private or the public sector; what standard of housing should be provided: a completed four-room house or “progressive” (incremental) housing; and how rapidly the housing ...