Publication

This paper outlines the centrality of housing to sustainable livelihoods within the context of human security. The author challenges orthodox conceptions of security as primarily a matter of state sovereignty by advancing security concerns of individuals and groups below the level of the state. He presents an argument for the value of adequate shelter to human security and presents South Africa's national housing subsidy program as a development imperative on which progressive realization of the reconstruction agenda is predicated. He also discusses the primacy of security of tenure within the context of the contemporary mortgage-induced international financial crisis.