ABSTRACT
This chapter examines changes in housing policies in Zimbabwe, paying particular attention to aided self-help schemes. It looks initially at the development of Glen View in the context of Harare City Council's attitude towards housing strategies. Having created a low-cost/low-income scheme the dilemma Harare City Council had to face was how to prevent low-income groups being ousted from a project intended for their benefit. At the same time however, Harare City Council was strongly in favour of residents disposing of dwellings in which the latter had invested time and money. Glen View's establishment was based therefore on a changing attitude towards ownership, a strategy of self-help and, at the level of low-income policy, one based upon rather crude 'affordability' criteria. Glen View therefore represented the first attempt within Salisbury to integrate both home-ownership and self-help strategies, and to be specifically aimed at targeted low-income groups.
