Title: South Africa's poverty alleviation strategy through housing: chasing the 2015 millennium development goal's pragmatic?

Authors: Boitumelo Mmusinyane

Addresses: Department of Private Law, School of Law, University of South Africa, P.O. Box 392, UNISA, 0003, South Africa

Abstract: Section 26(1) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 grants everyone the right to have access to adequate housing. In terms of Section 26(2), it is the government's duty to take reasonable legislative and other measures, within its available resources, to achieve the progressive realisation of this right. This paper critically evaluates the extent to which housing to the poor, the unemployed and the homeless contributes to the government's poverty alleviation strategy and also how the provision of housing to these categories of people will help the government in meeting its MDGs targets. The paper also engages the challenges which the country is facing since 1994 in delivering housing to the poor.

Keywords: housing provision; South Africa; Constitution of the Republic of South Africa; millennium development goals; MDG; poverty alleviation strategy; poor; unemployed; homeless.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPL.2014.059068

International Journal of Private Law, 2014 Vol.7 No.1, pp.40 - 52

Published online: 13 Sep 2014 *

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