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Sustainable housing for low‐income communities: lessons for South Africa in local and other developing world cases

Nicole Ross PD Naidoo and Associates, Cape Town, South Africa
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Paul Anthony Bowen Department of Construction Economics and Management, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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David Lincoln Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Pages 433-449 | Received 26 Apr 2009, Accepted 28 Oct 2009, Published online: 15 Jun 2010

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