Household resilience is tied to the house

ince 1994, the South African government’s national housing programme has completed an estimated 3.4m housing units and handed these over to the lowest-income families in the nation. An estimated 2m of these houses are formally registered on the deeds registry, and subsidy housing stock now accounts for just under one-third of all formally registered residential properties in SA. For the households who were fortunate enough to receive a subsidised house, it is probably the most valuable asset they