Browsing by Subject "conflicting rationalities"

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    Analysis of the land administration and housing management systems in view of adequate self-built incremental housing development in Lesotho
    (2024) Mabesa, Mamphaka Jeanett; Whittal, Jennifer
    This research analyses the effect of Lesotho's post-reform Land Administration System (LAS) and Housing Management System (HMS) in view of supporting and promoting adequate housing delivery through Self-built Incremental Housing (SBIH) development. SBIH is key to Lesotho's realisation of the Africa Agenda 2063, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 and New Urban Agenda (NUA). This research seeks to provide an integrated and holistic view of SBIH using an approach based on a critical realist ontology. It relies on overarching theoretical and analytic lenses of conflicting rationalities and spatial planning. Ethnographic case study research methodology (ECSRM) is adopted, using a mixed-methods approach. Multiple conflicting rationalities about SBIH development are identified. These are between the central and local governments, governments and LAS and HMS, and the State and the SBIH Dwellers. Looking at the existing land and housing legislative, policy and process frameworks, and their implementation, SBIH continues developing in a fragmented, siloed, conflicting rationality space. Further analysis using the theory of spatial planning provides compelling insights into the LAS and HMS. These include poor policy integration, lack of coordination, and a lack of adaptation of the systems to SBIH Dwellers' needs. Disconnection between these systems and the lived experiences of SBIH Dwellers, particularly their everyday struggles to access adequate housing, remain critical barriers to the success of these systems in meeting the goal of adequate housing through SBIH. The results of this research could guide the design of appropriate SBIH policy and legislative frameworks in Lesotho and feed into State housing delivery processes in line with social needs and SBIH practices and the goal of adequate housing for all. In support of SBIH, this research recommends the integration of the LAS and HMS in Lesotho. All Land Administration and Housing Management aspects should embrace a human-rights-based approach to adequate housing and consider social housing in some form. Furthermore, spatial planning at the local government level should be harmonised with national strategic development plans while capacity development in all arms of the State dealing in this sector, is required. Finally, SBIH guidelines should be produced to mainstream this form of housing delivery. These should include the strategic objectives of SBIH along with performance indicators that seek to address conflicting rationalities and policy disintegration in this space.
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    Caught in between policies: the intertwined challenges of access to land and housing in Gaborone, Botswana
    (2021) Montsho, Oduetse; Brown-Luthango, Mercy
    A thorough examination of policies and guidelines tailored towards enabling access to land and housing in Gaborone suggests incongruences' inherent in these strategies. Besides, planners and policymakers' continuous oversight to recognise the complexities of the urban everyday survival strategies and the lived experiences of the populace needs to be investigated. Numerous interventions have been introduced to facilitate land and housing access for low-income households in Gaborone. Even so, restricted access to these assets remains an enormous task, proven complex and problematic to resolve. The empirical evidence specifies the predominant situation articulated by a clash of rationalities between policies and everyday socio-economic practices of access to land and housing by low income households in Gaborone. The investigation of these tensions between policies promoting access to land and housing and the advocacy of the Self-Help Housing Agency as the primary rationale for home building and ownership by low-income households in Gaborone was articulated through policy assessment and analysis. Furthermore, in-depth interviews to appreciate the affected populace's lived experiences in response to the practicality of these policies was conducted. In terms of findings, this research has established that urban environments are persistently transformed with new configurations relating to access to land and housing frequently surfacing. Moreover, urban land and housing management policies fail to get in touch with the complexities of grassroots experience with access to land and housing in Gaborone. There is also the entrenchment of low-income households in a vicious circle of poverty and living precariously at the urban fringes with no security of tenure and affordable housing opportunities. All these experiences and practices resonate with the current endeavours to evaluate the realities of accessing land and housing resources in cities, as well as their correlation with promoting livelihood strategies for low-income households.