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Multi-Habitation: Urban Housing and Everyday Life in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe

by Ann Schlyter. 77 pgs.

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Table of contents
Preface 5
Map of Harare area and Chitungwiza 6
1. Introduction 7
  Multi-habitation—a dominant African housing form 7
  A pro-lodging home-ownership policy 8
  The everyday life perspective 9
  Definitions and research questions 10
  A longitudinal case study 11
2. Informalisation of formal housing 14
  Colonial policies of race and gender 14
  Urban planning for control 16
  Poor areas in an “independent” town. 16
  Rent-to-buy as means of privatisation 18
  Unit N and the ultra-low-cost unit 19
  Regulation and control 20
  Outbuildings and multi-habitation 22
3. Esther—her house and livelihoods 24
  A war refugee 24
  Livelihood 25
  To build for lodgers 25
  The shebeen and the workshop 28
  Illegal livelihoods and illegal outbuildings 30
  Family and quality of living 31
  Beauty, the heir and her uncle 34
  Lodgers in Beauty's house 35
4. More case histories of owners and lodgers 38
  Case Two: The ultra-low-cost unit of Eric and Emma 38
  A son-in-law is a sharer 39
  Contracts and building regulations 40
  Generational shift 41
  Working lodgers 43
  Case Three: Paula—an absentee landlady 45
  Aspiring a house of one's own 46
  Case Four: A family house 49
  Case Five: Lodgers in tied accommodation 49
5. Quality of living conditions 51
  Lodging, sharers or extended households 51
  Landlords and lodgers 53
  Absentee landlordism 55
  One, two or three rooms 56
  Shared facilities 59
  Residential density 61
  Indoor overcrowding and privacy 63
  Minimum standards for good quality 64
6. Coping with poverty 66
  Forms of multi-habitation and households 66
  Empowered owners 67
  Disempowered lodgers 67
  Exodus of non-poor 68
  Women's strategies 69
  Ageing in town? 70
  The significance of housing in livelihoods 71
  Associational life and tenure 72
  Comments on housing policy 72
  Comments on methodology 74
References 75
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