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Supporting the foundations of self-build: Lessons from the Right to Build Initiative
Housing Support Centres (HSCs) can play a vital role in providing technical advice and support to those wishing to self-build. This paper draws lessons, from a 2024 HSC pilot conducted in a partnership between the City of Cape Town and the Backyard Matters Project, for replication and contextualisation of the HSC model in other human settlements contexts.
Mapping the small scale affordable rental housing sector
The small-scale affordable rental housing sector is highly diverse. Awareness of crucial differences is important for understanding the varied ways in which they operate and their future growth potential and capacity to formalise. It is also key to developing appropriate responses and support interventions that adequately respond to the needs and opportunities inherent to specific sub-sectors of this housing market.
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