Housing

Khayelitsha residents demand toilets, water and electricity

“We have had enough of living in squalor,” says shack-dweller

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News | 20 June 2018

Court allows Durban evictees to return to their homes

Lamontville Transit Camp residents were evicted on Friday by the City of eThekwini

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News | 19 June 2018

Why families occupied land in Parkwood

“Politicians come and make promises they can’t keep”

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Feature | 19 June 2018

Families living in tents outside complex they were evicted from

But some tenants of Steenvilla are angry with rent-defaulters and want them gone

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News | 19 June 2018

Speed up affordable housing policy, say Cape Town councillors

Motion passed on Monday is a small, symbolic but important moment in the struggle for spatial justice, say housing activists

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News | 18 June 2018

Residents of Durban transit camp evicted to make way for other evictees

Community members say they will challenge removals in court

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News | 18 June 2018

We can’t house everyone, says Bonginkosi Madikizela

Housing backlog exceeds 575,000, but only 18,000 houses can be completed annually

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Brief | 15 June 2018

Informal settlements flooded by heavy rains

Residents prepare for more storms

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Photo Essay | 14 June 2018

Using municipal land for bowling greens during a housing crisis is unjust

Fish Hoek has enough space to build affordable housing

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Opinion | 14 June 2018

Criminals prey on Vastrap’s disabled residents

20 Port Elizabeth families have been living in containers for four years

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News | 14 June 2018

Hope at last for residents of one of Cape Town’s oldest informal settlements

Toilets to be installed in Taiwan in Khayelitsha after protests

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News | 13 June 2018

Protesters who targeted funeral processions finally get houses

Uitenhage families moved after 20 years in shacks

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News | 13 June 2018

Councillor’s office set ablaze by people whose shacks were demolished

Violence is the language the government understands, says land occupier

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News | 12 June 2018

Illegal electricity connections are our only option, say shack-dwellers

“We know how dangerous these cables are”

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News | 12 June 2018

Still no solution for Wembley Stadium families

Families living in tents one year after evictions

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News | 11 June 2018

Khayelitsha residents destroy shack in xenophobic attack

“People destroyed my shack and took everything. They say they don’t want a kwere kwere to stay here.”

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News | 11 June 2018