Housing

Evicted residents distressed at prospect of living in Wolwerivier

The temporary relocation area is far from social grant paypoints, medical facilities, shopping malls, work opportunities and the police station

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News | 19 March 2018

PE officials and residents debate land occupations

Municipality encourages people to register on housing database but backyarders say the wait is too long

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News | 16 March 2018

Scores left homeless after demolitions in Makhaza

Spate of land occupations in Cape Town continues

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Brief | 14 March 2018

Are resident associations being captured by the property industry?

Sea Point shows how developers use these organisations to advance their own interests

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Analysis | 14 March 2018

Court orders Brett Herron to explain emergency housing options

City officials to visit Wolwerivier with activists this weekend

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News | 13 March 2018

New land occupation in Kraaifontein

93 families say they wish to establish a crime free informal settlement for themselves

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Brief | 13 March 2018

Hundreds lose their homes in Cape Town fire

Doornbach informal settlement hit by early morning blaze

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Brief | 13 March 2018

Woodstock residents shocked by prospect of life in Wolwerivier

Community warns of conflict if more people relocated to overcrowded settlement

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News | 13 March 2018

We need bowling greens and golf courses for affordable housing

How can a parking lot that is empty for 18 hours a day be a better land use than a home?

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Opinion | 12 March 2018

City removes 182 shacks in Khayelitsha

Some residents squeezed new structures among existing homes in Msindweni informal settlement

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Brief | 12 March 2018

Freight trains stopped for weeks as backyarders fight for land in Dunoon

“We need land to build shacks. If we demand houses we are going to wait till we are old and frail.”

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News | 10 March 2018

Dire need for housing is South Africa’s biggest challenge

We are on track to exceed our targets for the delivery of houses in Cape Town for the current financial year

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Opinion | 8 March 2018

Riot in Mfuleni follows shack removals

“I want to have my own place and stand on my own two feet because I’m an adult”

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News | 8 March 2018

Mother tells of her child’s death in shack fire

Family unable to afford funeral for nine-year-old

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News | 8 March 2018

Why we woke up Brett Herron at 5am with koesiesters

People evicted from their homes cannot be dumped in Blikkiesdorp or Wolwerivier

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Opinion | 7 March 2018

City removes people occupying Gugulethu land

Eviction takes place despite upcoming meeting between mayor and occupiers

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Brief | 6 March 2018