Matthews, Peter John2014-03-142014-03-141996etd-10012008-063141http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44966Racially discriminatory apartheid-era policies, population growth, and high unemployment have given South Africa a severe shortage of urban low-income housing. This thesis evaluates the sites and services approach as a means to reduce the housing shortage. The limited success of the new democratic government's efforts to provide the urban poor with formal low-income housing suggests that sites and services housing's reliance on self-help labor may reduce the housing shortage more effectively than formal housing. This study will assess the sites and services approach in terms of several basic factors. They include: government costs per housing unit, speed of construction, affordability for the poor, and the degree to which the method can produce a standard of housing that could be acceptable to the poor.iv, 110 leavesBTDapplication/pdfenIn CopyrightSouth Africaself-helpsites and serviceshousingpopulationurbanLD5655.V855 1996.M3843Thesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10012008-063141/