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Student Housing and Homelessness: A Paradox of Urban Gentrification in Pretoria’s Old East, South Africa

John Mashayamombe & Rehana Vally March 17, 2022

The urgency of providing affordable student housing influenced government and higher education institutions to consider urban renewal as a possible avenue to alleviate this demand, with the result that private–public partnerships were promoted to address this. Issues discussed in this article are drawn from qualitative interviews with University of Pretoria’s Student Representative Council (2018–2019), a..

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