Resilient entrepreneurial poor in urban housing by the homeless people in Chimanimani post-Cyclone Idai disaster in Zimbabwe.

Abstract

Despite the homelessness escalated by Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani town in Manicaland
province, in Zimbabwe, entrepreneurial poor continued with their resilience in accessing
affordable housing in urban areas. In spite of these efforts, little has been theorized on the
homeless entrepreneurial poor strategies in accessing low cost urban housing in urban areas.
Therefore, it is against this backdrop that the paper seeks to explore the resilience theory and how
it informs entrepreneurial poor in accessing housing, institutional resilience and household
transformation in post disaster situations, the national housing policy and how it accommodated
the entrepreneurial poor in Zimbabwe and lastly how assets and transforming structures and
processes contributed to the transformation of the entrepreneurial homeless households into a
secure, vulnerability free and more secure Chimanimani town.