A.Y. Wilcox

A.Y. Wilcox is a researcher at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, specializing in Urban Development Management. Their work focuses on low-income housing, spatial design, and governance in sub-Saharan African cities, particularly Johannesburg.

• Key research themes: Incremental Housing, Income-Generating Housing, Informal Settlement Upgrading, and Urban Governance
• Collaborators include M. Haffner, N. Mota, and M. Elsinga

Wilcox has published extensively on housing policies in South Africa, with a focus on the K206 RDP project. Their recent outputs include a dissertation (2025) and peer-reviewed articles (2024) in Urban Planning and International Journal of Housing Policy.

Activities include presentations at academic conferences (2021–2022) on topics like informal settlement displacement and inequality. They have 23 Mendeley readers and 1 X (Twitter) mention, indicating growing scholarly engagement.