Homeowner Ideology

Economic (F)Utility of Real Property Rights in Four African Cities

AvSingumbe Muyeba

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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While homeownership has clear benefits among the impoverished, The Homeowner Ideology shows that the utility of real property rights as an economic resource are severely limited in sub-Saharan African cities. Although global poverty has declined since 1990, it remains widespread in Subsahara, the region with the highest proportion of the global population living in slums. Mainstream thinking in development studies is dominated by market fundamentalist neoclassical economics and the premise that ownership reduces poverty. Singumbe Muyeba contends that this neoliberal premise is flawed and unsupported by data within the African context. Muyeba argues that property rights function as structured idle capital on the formal market in African cities and the persistence of homeownership as the intervention of choice is explained by the influence of neoliberal ideology, intergenerational transfer of homeownership culture within the family, and the state’s deliberate and active support for homeownership tenure.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-03-24
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:African Perspectives
Antal sidor:252
Förlag:The University of Michigan Press
ISBN:9780472057320

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Singumbe Muyeba is Assistant Professor of African Studies at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver.

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List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Poverty, Slum Conditions, and HomeownershipChapter 2. Conceptualizing and Theorizing the Homeowner IdeologyChapter 3. Pervasiveness of the Homeowner Ideology in Three of Four Sub-Saharan African CitiesChapter 4. Kibera, Khayelitsha, Matero, and ZangoChapter 5. The Homeowner Ideology and Freehold through Mortgages in NairobiChapter 6. The Homeowner Ideology and Freehold through Subsidized Housing in Cape TownChapter 7. The Homeowner Ideology and Privatization of Council Housing in LusakaChapter 8. The Antitheses of the Homeowner Ideology through Usufruct Rights to Social Housing in LuandaChapter 9. Conclusion: Persistence of the Homeowner Ideology in AfricaAppendix A: Understanding of Property Rights and Tenure SecurityAppendix B: Summary of Claims about the Effects of Freehold and Lessons from the Developing WorldAppendix C: Variable Descriptions for Chapter 8Appendix D: Comparison of Paraiso and Zango 1 Households on Key VariablesReferencesIndex