@inbook{9923a03b294d43b9a187284819ceae51,
title = "Making Land {\textquoteleft}Developable{\textquoteright} for Market-Driven Affordable Housing in Gauteng, South Africa",
abstract = "This chapter excavates affordable housing{\textquoteright}s pre-history through exploring mundane, bureaucratic practices and instruments of land use management. From officials and developers{\textquoteright} perspectives on township establishment processes in Gauteng, we learn how multi-actor governance of land development in South African cities shapes housing delivery long before houses are actually constructed. In this context, sprawling, distant housing developments for a growing middle class are reproduced by way of a routinised, negotiated, slowly changing land use planning process that privileges large developers{\textquoteright} capacities and depends on the state{\textquoteright}s ability to manage those capacities (or not). I also highlight frictions within this development process: between equity and efficiency in new land use management policy; between the state and developers over timing; and within the state itself over managing its contracts. These together with new policies and new spaces of formal contestation may shape Gauteng{\textquoteright}s affordable housing development differently in the future, but the operating logics of urban land rent and new public management are strong at present.",
author = "Si{\^a}n Butcher",
note = "Thanks to the Urban Governance through the Lens of Housing workshop group, two anonymous reviewers, and co-editors Margot Rubin, Sarah Charlton and Neil Klug for their time and input on multiple versions of the chapter. Earlier versions also benefited from feedback received at the 2019 American Association of Geographers{\textquoteright} panel Spatializing the Land Bureaucracy (in the Postcolonial World) organized by Sangeeta Banerji and Tom Cowan, with generous discussant Dr Sivaramakrishnan. I am grateful for the Urban Studies Foundation support during analysis; the University of Witwatersrand Science Faculty Research Council for assistance with fieldwork and transcribing costs; Yulea Roopai, Rachel Ibbetson and Nathan Seiler for transcribing; Russell Martin for proofreading an initial draft, and to local officials, developers and consulting planners for their time and insight on these processes of township establishment. The interpretation, and its limits, are my own.",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-37408-1_4",
language = "English (US)",
series = "GeoJournal Library",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "65--84",
booktitle = "GeoJournal Library",
address = "Germany",
}