Housing

Informal settlement dwellers rebuild despite repeat demolitions

Councillor says land belongs to the City and is earmarked for future housing projects

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News | 5 July 2018

Social housing residents demand option to buy homes

Evicted people, informal settlement residents and backyarders march through city centre

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News | 5 July 2018

Emergency housing for Hermanus community

But unclear if it will be enough to placate protesters

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News | 5 July 2018

DA and EFF at odds over Brakpan land occupation

Occupiers want ward councillor to address them in person

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News | 4 July 2018

Cape Town launches Safe Space for homeless people

Facility will provide overnight shelter for up to 230 homeless people

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Brief | 4 July 2018

How a woman secures her shack when it rains

Masiphumelele’s informal settlement is built on a wetland and regularly floods

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News | 4 July 2018

Duncan Village residents claim homes were “given away”

Two families are demanding answers after they claim the home numbers given to them by the municipality were already occupied

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Brief | 2 July 2018

Hope for Johannesburg waste pickers

The City has committed to including them in recycling efforts, but activists are sceptical

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News | 2 July 2018

Why do informal settlements get cluttered with litter?

UCT survey of Island in Khayelitsha provides some answers

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Science | 29 June 2018

Blikkiesdorp residents frustrated by housing delays

City councillor estimates new RDP homes will be completed in two years

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Photo Essay | 29 June 2018

Rubber bullets fired at EFF-led Brakpan land occupiers

300 shacks demolished but occupiers say they are not leaving

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News | 27 June 2018

Protesters accuse ANC of job favouritism and shut down construction site

Residents of KwaNobuhle demand repairs to their RDP homes

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Brief | 27 June 2018

Can subsidised rentals help solve the housing crisis?

It’s an idea whose time has come but it is not a cure-all

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GroundView | 27 June 2018

De Lille and protesters in tense stand-off

Vrygrond residents furious that the mayor addressed media before them, while she accused the community’s leadership of rejecting all the City’s proposals

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News | 26 June 2018

Officials don’t understand how much I struggle to survive, says land occupier

Shacks demolished on state-owned land in Khayelitsha

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News | 26 June 2018

Battle for Bo-Kaap’s future

Residents are protesting against gentrification but a heritage consultant is sceptical of “nostalgia of an imagined past”

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Feature | 26 June 2018