This edited collection from across the African continent offers a diverse set of analytical accounts that engage with the urban governance dynamics, drivers and impacts of a wide variety of housing initiatives. These include insights into the relationships between parties and actors undertaking developments, or whose housing activities impact on the city. The book illustrates issues of power distribution, the visions or agendas motivating these actions, and the instruments used to advance them. It considers the rise of mega housing projects; private sector driven residential developments; unobtrusive transformations of existing building stock, establishment and upgrading of informal settlements; and state driven low cost housing schemes. It surfaces the contestation, collaborations and conflicts as well as the power relations that operate within cities and which are made visible on cityscapes. Housing and human settlement scholars as well as those interested in urban politicsand governance dynamics in the global south and across the African continent will find much to appreciate in this volume.

Provides new insights into housing and urban governance

Chapter 1: Reflecting on the housing lens and urban governance.- Section A: STATE AND COUNTER-STATE: DOMINANCE AND CONTESTATION.- Chapter 2: The quest to develop affordable housing: How Good Urban Governance depoliticizes the debate on housing affordability in Kigali, Rwanda.- Chapter 3: Interests and Contestation in Nairobi City Redevelopment and Housing Schemes.- Chapter 4: Are Social Movements achieving the Right to Adequate Housing in Lagos, Nigeria?.- Chapter 5: Becoming 'Unlawful': Homeownership, housing bureaucracy, and the production of precarity in Eastridge, Cape Town.- Chapter 6: Forced Evictions and the creation of the Lagos Mega-city.- SECTION B: STAKEHOLDER INTERFACES AND HYBRID ARRANGEMENTS.- Chapter 7: Navigating the ideological nexus between political and private interests: experiences on Inclusionary Housing from Cape Town.- Chapter 8: From Resistance to Reclamation: Insurgency in Khartoum's housing governancepost the Sudanese revolution.- Chapter 9: Urban governance, authority and citizenship: the dynamics of local formal and informal governance of housing in Delft and Alexandra.- Chapter 10: Intermediation by necessity: The case of uMastand.- Section C: UNRESOLVED RESPONSIBILITIES.