Effects of government housing subsidies in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
| dc.contributor.author | Muyeba, Singumbe | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-25T10:32:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-04-25T10:32:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-04-25T10:30:38Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Property rights are widely imagined to have considerable direct and indirect effects on urban poverty. Evidence is however scarce, more so in Southern Africa. This paper examines the effects of property rights in South Africa through a case-study of subsidised privately-titled housing for poor people in Khayelitsha, Cape Town using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy. The results show that housing subsidies are associated with better physical health and (counter-intuitively) higher occurrence of teenage pregnancy. Improvement in health is attributed to better housing quality and environment. The effects of titling extend to human capital, which is understudied in the literature. Scholars thus need to go beyond examining economic effects alone. Since titling showed no effect by most measures, it is likely that poverty is driven so strongly by factors such as unemployment that property rights make little overall difference to poverty. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Muyeba, S. (2014). <i>Effects of government housing subsidies in Khayelitsha, Cape Town</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19187 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Muyeba, Singumbe <i>Effects of government housing subsidies in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19187 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Muyeba, S. (2014). Effects of government housing subsidies in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Centre for Social Science Research: University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Muyeba, Singumbe AB - Property rights are widely imagined to have considerable direct and indirect effects on urban poverty. Evidence is however scarce, more so in Southern Africa. This paper examines the effects of property rights in South Africa through a case-study of subsidised privately-titled housing for poor people in Khayelitsha, Cape Town using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy. The results show that housing subsidies are associated with better physical health and (counter-intuitively) higher occurrence of teenage pregnancy. Improvement in health is attributed to better housing quality and environment. The effects of titling extend to human capital, which is understudied in the literature. Scholars thus need to go beyond examining economic effects alone. Since titling showed no effect by most measures, it is likely that poverty is driven so strongly by factors such as unemployment that property rights make little overall difference to poverty. DA - 2014 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 T1 - Effects of government housing subsidies in Khayelitsha, Cape Town TI - Effects of government housing subsidies in Khayelitsha, Cape Town UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19187 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19187 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Muyeba S. Effects of government housing subsidies in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. 2014 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19187 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. | |
| dc.title | Effects of government housing subsidies in Khayelitsha, Cape Town | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |