ABSTRACT
The resolution and impact of legal disputes involving housing rights in the city of Johannesburg are considered in this chapter. After contextualising housing struggles in post-apartheid South Africa and expositing the legal and constitutional framework pertaining to housing disputes, the chapter considers the habitation practices of Johannesburg’s poorest residents, and their resonance with the ‘right to the city’. Thereafter, it critically assesses the South African jurisprudence on the right of access to housing, paying particular attention to the bureaucratic-, policy- and human-impact of judgments in cases originating from Johannesburg.
