RENTAL DEFAULT FACING SOCIAL HOUSING INSTITUTION IN SOUTH AFRICA: A CASE STUDY OF JOHANNESBURG.

Purpose: High rates of urbanization have concentrated housing needs in urban areas. This has resulted to large-scale housing and service backlog. The rapid growth in housing demand represents a mammoth task for both the present and future housing policy in South Africa. Local Government in an effort to address this challenge has placed high premium to inner-city regeneration. An important part of this regeneration is the development of social housing. Since inception the social housing institutions have been struggling to meet their mandate due to end-user default in rental payment and this call for investigation. Problem of investigation: The problem of default in rental payment by residents of social housing institutions has reached a crisis point in addressing housing challenge facing the country. The only way the problem could be addressed is by knowing the reasons behind the default. Some of the social housing institutions have reached a point that this tendency might force them to close down. Hence, this investigation tends to find out the underlying reasons behind the inability of the end-users in meeting the set obligation in relation to rental payment. DesignlMethodology: This investigation will be based on primary and secondary data with grea