...continuedMy late father grew up in the rural areas where that traditional hut is usually found.We would visit grandma usually on Easter, Christmas.The homestead usually has four-five huts spaced twenty metres apart in a homestead setup.One hut is a big Kitchen where the family gathers at meal time, the other huts are bedrooms for the parents, boys, girls etc...then one other could be a guestroom as space should a visitor comeThe huts are made from logs for the walls, with mud for plastering, then thatch for roofing supported by some poles.Usually fifty metres away is cattle kraal and goat pen.Milking of cows or goats sometimes would happen early morningThese rural areas also know as reserves unfortunately most were in poor /marginal agricultural areas hence a rural to urban migration has occurred.In Urban areas the land would be most owned by the council.Some former farms where annexed as the city grew.So the the Urban Council which is the local government owns a lot of land and residents register on the housing waiting list.Over time the council flights a tender for a developer to service some of its lands for the provision of houses for those on the waiting listBy service that is add roads, water connection, drainage and sewer pipeline and connect to electrical grid.The house lots are most divided into lots 200 -300square metres or whatever ideal size.The aim is to provide affordable housing for those on the register.The house built will be inspected and approved by council at foundation, roof level and finally the council issues a certificate of occupancy when house is complete and inspected as safe and up to standardNow specifically to your questions1) Yes there are some developers who not only service the land but also build some of the houses.I don't know if they rent these out but i know they sell them, sometimes with terms.Affordable houses have a going rate of USD20/room/month at the minimum.Brick wall with asbestos roofing2) The renter/buyers of these type of house could sometimes be a civil servant (i.e teachers, nurses, policemen etc), self-employed tradespeople, diaspora (those working outside the country desirous to invest back home)3)Anything of value is their salary, profits of their small business4) Hard to build?

@Steve K. how would you know that a market has poor fundamentals, you mean the neighborhood, income, school, migration, jobs, crime, appreciation?   

That is why migrations happen or we would all be still living in Philidephia. 

You can filter the data you are looking for based on whichever markets are in your list of potential candidates.https://www.zillow.com/research/data/If you are looking for more information about migration patterns and employment opportunities, I would recommend the U.S.

Some of things that I’m currently researching are migration patterns in specific markets.

Florida, depending on your source, is #1-3 in inbound migration, has 5 of the top 10 cities in the country for migration, #1-3 in economy and job growth. 

Inflation will also be a huge boost to leveraged investors as their debt looses value (just like it helps erode our national debt).There is a good argument for internal migration away from smoke and forest fires, away from drought zones.

I suspect that, to some degree, we're going to see migration trends favor these more affordable locations, especially if the remote work trend continues. 

With the defund the police matter and urban unrest in a lot of cities I expect that migration trends will favor the suburbs.

Thos could cause a shift in migration trends.