by Paul Hendler | 26 Apr 2025 | Finance, Grassroots struggle, Housing, Land processes, Operational development, Political economy, Urban processes
Preface Housing and prosperity constantly occupies the minds of the majority of South Africans. On 20 June 2024 INSITE hosted a panel discussion assessing the pros and cons of the draft Human Settlements White Paper. The National Department of Human Settlements...
by Paul Hendler | 15 Sep 2019 | Bureaucratic Protocols, Free Debate, Operational development, Organisational Development, Urban processes
Between 2012 and 2016 I (Paul Hendler) led a team of consultants for the Cities Support Programme (CSP). This is about the programme strengths-weaknesses. The CSP is a National Treasury (NT) project. CSP’s purpose is to address the poverty, unemployment and...
by Paul Hendler | 14 Sep 2019 | Finance, Housing, Land processes, Political economy
Executive Summary A group of 14 people gathered at a home in Kalk Bay during 2017 to discuss the meaning of ‘neo-liberalism’. Neo-liberalism – urbanisation housing. There is already an introductory trailer to this. We are all involved in concern for...
by Paul Hendler | 13 Sep 2019 | Finance, Housing, Land processes, Political economy
Trailer – Introduction Video Here is a trailer for a longer video. This records the introduction to a discussion that I facilitated. The discussion was about Neo-liberalism. And its impact on South Africa’s Urban and Housing strategies since 1994....
by Paul Hendler | 26 Jun 2017 | Operational development, SMME support, Standard Operating Procedures, Tenders
During February I facilitated a Project Management Course. There were participants from four organisations. Habitat for Humanity South Africa. Shackdwellers International. Peoples Environmental Planning. And Making of Cities. The course venue was the Josephine Mill in...
by Paul Hendler | 25 Jun 2017 | Finance, Free Debate, Insights, Political economy, Urban processes
When elites command us to “do as we say not as we do”. This is preposterous arrogance….. Public discourse contaminated by preposterous arrogance Social forces interpolate their members. This happens through people learning to mouth the views...
