Housing

Squabble over money for Masiphumelele land

Ward councillor accuses community leaders of charging residents to get a plot

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News | 26 March 2018

Increase in backyard rentals drives Dunoon land occupations

City of Cape Town says it will continue to enforce the law

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News | 26 March 2018

Two die in Philippi fire

Neighbours tried but failed to put out shack fire with buckets of water

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Brief | 26 March 2018

Evicted land occupiers take refuge in crèche

Dozens of children and adults left homeless after City demolitions in Kraaifontein

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News | 22 March 2018

Cape Town residents call for land for “dignified homes”

“Apartheid still exists in our spatial plan in Cape Town and in other cities” says Mayco Member Brett Herron

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News | 21 March 2018

Cape Town to pilot “safe space” for homeless people

Councillor says new approach may be more successful at reducing the number of people living on the streets

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News | 20 March 2018

Cape Town housing activist fatally stabbed

Latest of several violent incidents allegedly involving security guards at Helen Bowden Nurses Home

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News | 19 March 2018

Mfuleni’s evicted land occupiers squat in makeshift communal shacks

“The shack becomes jam-packed in the evening”

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Brief | 19 March 2018

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