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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
social sciences
Towards identifying the causes of South Africa's street homelessness: Some policy recommendations
Development Southern Africa, Volume 27, No. 1, Year 2010
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Description
The Human Sciences Research Council's four-year study of street homelessness in South Africa highlights the way unemployment stresses poor households and sets in motion processes of exclusion, and suggests that the social wage safety net is not protecting the street homeless. Although subsidised housing and social grants seem to head off homelessness in many cases, they mainly target the poor in shacks, an economic migrant population who seem more able to access on their own the benefits due to them, without needing institutional help. This paper recommends both prevention and remediation. It highlights the roles of housing delivery and the social wage, which should include measures that will work for both shack residents and the street homeless and will assist failed work-seekers who are at risk of homelessness. Allowing access to street livelihoods may be the only practical alternative to expanding social grant support to include the structurally unemployed. © 2010 Development Bank of Southern Africa.
Authors & Co-Authors
Cross, Catherine R.
South Africa, Pretoria
Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa
Seager, John R.
South Africa, Pretoria
Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa
South Africa, Bellville
University of the Western Cape
Statistics
Citations: 34
Authors: 2
Affiliations: 2
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1080/03768350903519416
ISSN:
0376835X
e-ISSN:
14703637
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Locations
South Africa