Cape Town Affordable Housing Tracker

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Locations are approximate. The report names sites by erf number or suburb but does not map them, so circles are placed at the street or suburb named; sites sharing a suburb are nudged apart. "Affordable" is the City's definition: housing for households earning up to R34,800 a month. The six Lower Buitengracht blocks have one combined figure and are shown as one circle. Completed projects (markers with a tick) come from the report's Table 8, which gives no completion dates, so some may predate 2017; Conradie includes 327 First Home Finance units from the Province's report that the City's list leaves out, and Greenville's 32 GAP units are shown as affordable. The government filter works like this: a site that appears only in the City's report counts as City of Cape Town, and a site that appears only in the Western Cape Government's report counts as WC government. Where both reports list a site, it is grouped by which government led it, based on the reports and on published City, provincial and national statements: City-led projects (such as Glenhaven and Bothasig Gardens) count as City; shared projects (Regent Villas, Belhar Gardens) appear under both governments; and projects led by national government or a private company (Goodwood Station on PRASA land; Somerlife by IHS) also appear under both. Founders Garden and the Provincial Paving Testing Lab, which are in the City's report but are being driven by the Province, also appear under both governments. Because sites can appear under both governments, the City and WC government totals add up to more than the overall total. Sites added from the Western Cape Government's report to the court (the Premier's affidavit, with affidavits by Gavin Wiseman and Lindelwa Mabuntane) are not in the City's report. Where both governments list a site, the City's figures are shown and the Province's differing figures are given in the status note. Statuses for Montclair Mandalay, Somerset West Phases 3–4 and the completed social housing projects come from 2025 provincial steering committee minutes attached to Mr Wiseman's affidavit and may be out of date; Helen Bowden, Mandarin Court, Oude Molen and Stikland have no unit numbers yet. The 39-unit Pickwick Street transitional housing facility (opened 2019) is not in Table 8 and is not shown. "Ground broken" means site works have started: at Salt River Market, demolition began in August 2026 and earthworks for piling platforms in September 2026; the City expects building to start in January 2027.

Source: City of Cape Town, Report to Western Cape High Court in compliance with the Tafelberg judgment (Adonisi and Others v Minister for Transport and Public Works, WC, CCT 126/24), Tables 3, 4, 9 and 10 and Addendum A, with the Executive Mayor's affidavit sworn on 2 October 2026. Table 10's printed total (39,996) differs from the sum of its rows (39,699); the rows are used here. Western Cape Government report to the Western Cape High Court in the same case (affidavits of Premier Alan Winde, Gavin Wiseman and Lindelwa Mabuntane), October 2026. Award dates: City report Tables 3 and 9 (month and year of Council award); Conradie Park from the Mabuntane affidavit (agreement signed October 2018); other sites have no award date in the papers. Boundary: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Compiled by GroundUp.