Lauren Royston

Lauren Royston is an independent consultant at Development Works, specialising in land and housing, and development planning, with a current emphasis on urban tenure security in South Africa and the southern African region. A development planner by training, Lauren has worked in the non-governmental and public sectors. She has a long association with a community of inner city residents in Johannesburg and their legal advisors, whom she supports on resisting eviction, housing policy advocacy, and facilitating community participation. She was theme coordinator of the tenure theme area at Urban LandMark and is manager of the Tenure Security Facility Southern Africa, where she advocates for urban tenure security in informal settlement upgrading.