Editorial
Introduction: Public housing and its roles in social transformation
Alan Mabin
Articles
Public action for housing: Reflections on trends in global housing unaffordability in large cities
Deborah Potts
Housing for the people, housing for the needy: Public housing across continents
Bill Freund, Alan Mabin
Stretching state support: Everyday practices and state assisted housing in apartheid and after
Sarah Charlton
The cost of ownership: Learning from Flamingo Court, a former social housing apartment block in Durban
Rachel Matteau Matsha, Kira Erwin, Godfrey Musvoto
‘Welbedacht is a beautiful place’: Community insights on placemaking and social transformation in a state resettlement programme in eThekwini, Durban, South Africa.
Sogen Moodley, Monique Marks
Informalisation of state-subsidised housing in South Africa – the people’s response to state paternalism
Sandile Mbatha
The spirit of gifts: Public housing, citizenship and the ambiguities of home in South Africa
Leslie Bank
Public endeavour and shelter at Cradock/Kaladokhwe/Nxuba, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Alan Mabin
Reviews
Unequal Development and Labour in Brazil by Gerry Rodgers, Roberto Veras de Oliveira, and Janine Rodgers
Reviewed by Edward Cottle.
Recasting Workers’ Power: Work and Inequality in the Shadow of the Digital Age by Edward Webster with Lynford Dor
Reviewed by Roger Southall.