Place

The first session on ‘Place’ will be an engagement on the nature and roles of informal settlements, general lessons and policy reflections. The debate will include some interesting insights into what role informal settlements and property markets play; what works or doesn't work about them, and for whom; what our formal systems (public, private, development) could do to effectively engage in terms of solution seeking; what some future directions/possibilities are; what are emerging research/policy/action questions, and for whom.

Facilitator:

• Sarah Charlton, University of the Witwatersrand

Speakers:

• National Development Plan: Vision for 2030
  Prof Philip Harrison, SA Research Chair in Development Planning & Modelling
• Informal settlements in Johannesburg: How much do we know?
  Marie Huchzermeyer, Aly Karam and Miriam Maina, University of the Witwatersrand
• Kya Sands Informal Settlement: Vulnerability and Resilience
  Dylan Weakley, University of the Witwatersrand
• Study on potential interventions in the small scale rental market
  Stacey-Leigh Joseph, National Department of Human Settlements