Abstracts

71 Foundation, 2018). Remarkably, Hustlenomics creates pivotal opportunities for women and youth in the community by teaching them to make durable, recycled, and inexpensive bricks. This alternative costs less than traditional bricks and can be manufactured in a third of the time. These community members then learn how to create sustainable homes using those materials. This project is financed within a shared-home model: Hustlenomics as an organization splits the rental income with the household until the costs for building the home are recovered; then, full ownership is passed to the household. This model offers a sustainable rental to ownership path for low- income households. Hustlenomics has won various awards, including the SAB Foundation Social Innovation and Disability Empowerment Award (2018) and the SAB Foundation Social Innovation Award (2019). Ndlovu has mentioned that he plans on using these award earnings to invest in a brick machine that would expand capacity of Hustlenomics and speed up production time. Hustlenomics is a radically promising model that centers local communities while also prioritizing the most vulnerable or marginalized within the community (SAB Foundation, 2018). These innovative grassroot efforts are empowering and promising. Ultimately, with the proper social, political, and economic support, such home-grown solutions can profoundly begin to disrupt many of the entangled issues surrounding housing inequality and its implications. Conclusion The perpetuation of housing disparities is inextricably linked to the system of racism interlaced within the history of South Africa. The nation’s contemporary racial landscape is indicative of continued white imperialism and exploitation, leading to particular experiences of marginalization attached to black identity (Christopher, 1992, p. 573). The ANC government has tried to remedy disparities within housing by passing policies like RDP, PHP, and ePHP, all of which largely failed for a number of reasons, including unfavorable floor plans and infrastructure, flaws in distribution strategies, focus on home ownership, and failure to account for interconnected issues impacting ownership. Consequently, backyard dwellings skyrocketed after the release of RDP. Thus, the ideology of community-based solutions serves as an appropriate framework to develop interventions. Empower Shack and Hustlenomics are two examples of community-based solutions that function successfully and create positive change in their respective neighborhoods. Both projects center community involvement in renovating informal housing. Ultimately, resolving these flawed housing systems and reducing the built- in oppression will take a multilayered approach. The movement for liberation more generally, and fair housing more specifically, must be led by those on the margins. The affected communities must be prioritized and centered to produce and execute ideas and solutions that are the most impactful and approach justice for those communities.