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Housing Pathways of the "Missing People" of Public Housing and Resettlement Programs: Methodological Reflections
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Abstract This article deals with methodological challenges and presents solutions for the study of people who depart from state-subsidized housing in Ethiopia, Morocco, and South Africa. Having sold or rented out their units, these people have left and now live at dispersed locations. Assuming that many "mis... view more
This article deals with methodological challenges and presents solutions for the study of people who depart from state-subsidized housing in Ethiopia, Morocco, and South Africa. Having sold or rented out their units, these people have left and now live at dispersed locations. Assuming that many "missing people" leave state housing because of project-related shortcomings, studying the reasons for their departure is crucial to understanding standardized housing programs. "Missing people" urge scholars to emphasize the afterlives of housing policy interventions as a necessary analytical dimension. However, such research is confronted with three major methodological challenges: How is it possible to approach and study people who have disappeared from the area of a housing intervention? How can one link exploratory, in-depth qualitative accounts, rooted in subjective perceptions of the everyday, to potential structural deficiencies of standardized housing interventions? What kind of methodologies may help take into account the temporalities of displacement and resettlement? In order to overcome these challenges, the article presents innovative forms of purposive sampling and discusses analytical strategies, which - based on Clapham's framework of "housing pathways" - bridge relational and structural perspectives to housing programs.... view less
Keywords
displacement; resettlement; comparative research; Ethiopia; Morocco; Republic of South Africa; housing construction
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Free Keywords
affordable housing; housing pathway; housing programs; informality; residential trajectories; slum upgrading; snowball sampling
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 279-288
Journal
Urban Planning, 8 (2023) 4
Issue topic
Between the "Structural" and the "Everyday": Bridging Macro and Micro Perspectives in Comparative Urban Research
ISSN
2183-7635
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed