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What's driving the housing crisis for South African middle income households?

Why aren't these middling households mobilising for housing reform?

Yet we do see collective action in the case of 'fees must fall', for higher education. What explains this discrepancy?

Charlotte, why do you think 'middle class' isn't appropriate to the South African context?

Paper here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001671851530083X

Photo credits: Jonny Miller, http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/06/apartheids-urban-legacy-in-striking-aerial-photographs-south-africa-cities-architecture-racism/487808/