Research On The Housing Security System In South Africa

Housing is one of the basic material elements of human existence, everyone havetheir own housing is people’s pursuit of ideal in one thousand years. Due to havelong-running apartheid in South Africa, this system leads to most black SouthAfricans house without house and they have no ability to solve the basic housingneeds. And with the acceleration of urbanization, people’s demand for housing isincreasing; it led to a serious demand for housing problems on South African society.New South African government was established in1994, in order to solve the problemof the housing of citizens, to meet their basic needs of housing, the government beganto explore gradually establish a housing security system.In the early stage of system, the government of South Africa is mainly focus onthe development of individual housing property rights, through the housing subsidiesto the citizen. Then, with the state’s financial burden heavier, and citizens housingdemand increases, the South African government began to select a variety of securitymodels to provide housing to fulfill the housing needs of citizens. In order to solve thehousing problems of low-income families, the South African government has takensome measures. First of all, the South African government has issued a series of lawsand regulations. Not only the Constitution clearly stipulates the right to housing as abasic right of citizens, the states has the obligation to make use of all social resourcesand take measures to meet the appropriate housing rights of citizens, the governmentalso promulgated the Housing Law, the House Rent Act and Social Housing Act andother relevant laws for the housing guarantee of housing security system theimplementation provides the legal basis, formed a housing security legal system.Secondly, the South African government set up specialized agencies, division ofresponsibilities among agencies, and work together to protect the smoothimplementation of the measures. Thirdly, the governments take a variety of housingfunding sources to ensure the implementation of the housing security system. Bothdirect government investment in financial funds, and have set up a specialgovernment housing financial institutions, but also to encourage and guide bankinginstitutions to participate in the process of housing security. Finally, the governmentset up the establishment of a variety of housing security model based on subsidizedhousing, rental housing and social housing. With these measures, the South Africangovernment had solved the housing needs of many people, and had formed a relatively complete system of housing security.At present, our country’s housing security system is mainly composed ofaffordable housing, low-rent housing and public rental housing, but due to the lack oflegislation and supporting system, housing security system in practice there are stillcertain problems. Therefore, set up a perfect housing security system is imperative.The achievements in the housing security system in South Africa for reference toperfect our country’s housing security system has an important significance...