Housing

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

Housing picket outside Brett Herron’s home

Herron says Wolwerivier is all the City can offer for now

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News | 6 March 2018

Gugulethu occupiers call for City to buy land for them

“If the City builds double-storey flats here, about 700 homeless residents can get a place to stay”

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News | 5 March 2018

City says no money to house evictees in Woodstock

Albert Road residents refuse to move to Blikkiesdorp and Wolwerivier

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Brief | 1 March 2018

“Chocolate City”, where houses melt in the rain

Hundreds have lived in mud homes for decades in Dambuza

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Brief | 1 March 2018

Water restrictions hit Cape Town’s homeless

“We might stay on the streets, but we want to be clean”

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News | 28 February 2018

Ramaphosa’s “most important people”

GroundUp spoke to some of the people who sleep on the benches outside Parliament

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News | 27 February 2018

Church removed for shacks

Gugulethu land occupation continued over the weekend

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Brief | 26 February 2018

Foreshore development was one of the reasons for De Lille fallout

Plans pushed through by senior official, claims mayor’s executive director

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News | 26 February 2018