{"id":9929,"date":"2026-10-06T16:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/?p=9929"},"modified":"2026-10-09T09:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:46:50","slug":"housing-policy-residential-and-social-mobility-becoming-middle-class-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/blog\/housing-policy-residential-and-social-mobility-becoming-middle-class-in-cape-town\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHousing policy, residential and social mobility: becoming middle-class in Cape Town\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

28 octobre | 28 october, <\/strong>2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Western Cape Department of Infrastructure, 27 Wale Street, Cape Town<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Le workshop \u00ab Housing policy, residential and social mobility: becoming middle-class in Cape Town \u00bb se tient le 28 octobre 2026 au Western Cape Department of Infrastructure (Le Cap). <\/span>Soutenu par l\u2019IFAS-Recherche dans le cadre de son appel \u00e0 \u00e9v\u00e9nements, il pr\u00e9sente les r\u00e9sultats du programme <\/span>Protea<\/span> URBAPOL (Urbanit\u00e9s Politiques), un projet de recherche interdisciplinaire port\u00e9 par des universit\u00e9s sud-africaines (Western Cape, Stellenbosch) et fran\u00e7aises (INALCO, Paris Nanterre, Paris Cit\u00e9), cofinanc\u00e9 par la National Research Foundation et le gouvernement fran\u00e7ais (programme PHC). Il porte sur le First Home Finance Programme (anciennement FLISP), un dispositif de subvention destin\u00e9 aux m\u00e9nages situ\u00e9s juste au-dessus du seuil de la gratuit\u00e9 du logement mais exclus du march\u00e9.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Le programme croise entretiens qualitatifs sur les trajectoires r\u00e9sidentielles et enqu\u00eate quantitative sur les conditions de vie des primo-acc\u00e9dant\u00b7es dans deux quartiers post-apartheid contrast\u00e9s : Pelican Park\u2013New Horizons, projet phare de la Ville du Cap, et Forest Village, projet port\u00e9 par la province pour reloger des m\u00e9nages pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment d\u00e9plac\u00e9s. Il interroge les effets sociaux et spatiaux de cette politique, la signification politique de l\u2019accession \u00e0 la propri\u00e9t\u00e9 pour celles et ceux qui la vivent, et ce que signifie \u00ab devenir \u00bb classe moyenne dans de tels contextes urbains. Une perspective comparative sur le cas colombien est \u00e9galement propos\u00e9e.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The <\/span>\u201cHousing policy, residential and social mobility: becoming middle-class in Cape Town\u201d workshop will take place on 28 October 2026 at the Western Cape Department of Infrastructure (Cape Town). Supported by IFAS-Research through its call for events, it presents the results of the URBAPOL (Political Urbanity) Protea programme, an interdisciplinary research project led by South African universities (Western Cape, Stellenbosch) and French universities (INALCO, Paris Nanterre, Paris Cit\u00e9), co-funded by the National Research Foundation and the French Government (PHC programme). It focuses on the First Home Finance Programme (formerly FLISP), a subsidy scheme for households that fall just above the threshold for fully subsidised housing but remain priced out of the open market.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The programme combines qualitative interviews on residential histories with a quantitative survey of living conditions among first-time home buyers in two contrasting post-apartheid neighbourhoods: Pelican Park\u2013New Horizons, a flagship City of Cape Town project, and Forest Village, a provincially led project developed to relocate previously displaced households. It examines the social and spatial effects of this policy, the political significance of home ownership for those who experience it, and what it means to \u201cbecome\u201d middle class in such urban contexts. A comparative perspective on the Colombian experience is also offered.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

28 octobre | 28 october, 2026 Western Cape Department of Infrastructure, 27 Wale Street, Cape Town Le workshop \u00ab Housing policy, residential and social mobility: becoming middle-class in Cape Town \u00bb se tient le 28 octobre 2026 au Western Cape Department of Infrastructure (Le Cap). Soutenu par l\u2019IFAS-Recherche dans le cadre de son appel \u00e0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":9948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-conferences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9950,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929\/revisions\/9950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}