Housing

Hundreds left homeless by another fire in Hout Bay

Community members suspect arson

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News | 12 February 2018

Generations of Shackville residents abandoned by government

“Even my toilet is better than the house I’m living in”

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News | 7 February 2018

Pietermaritzburg community waiting since 2013 for guard rails on deadly road

Ward councillor says he has “sent a letter” and can do nothing more

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News | 5 February 2018

Urban planning: who leads the conversation?

Citizens’ experience must be taken into account, say experts

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News | 5 February 2018

Housing crisis: data collection is critical

World experts at the International Urban Conference discuss the need to build trust before building houses

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News | 3 February 2018

Homeless artist carves out a living

Michael Helsie makes wooden sculptures of animals

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Photo Essay | 2 February 2018

City of Cape Town destroys new shacks on Khayelitsha land

Residents say they cleaned up an illegal dump to build their shacks

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News | 31 January 2018

Slow progress for victims of huge Durban fire

Municipality accused of failing to provide vital information after Foreman Road disaster

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News | 25 January 2018

Another child drowns in Addo’s killer canal

Children say they have nowhere else to play

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News | 18 January 2018

No shelters for homeless people in East London

Fourteen people live in a public toilet

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News | 18 January 2018

Scathing judgment against Ekurhuleni municipality for 17-year housing delay

Court orders that homes must be built by end of year

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Law | 18 January 2018

Maitland slumlord forced to fix up property

Overcrowded house under renovation following GroundUp investigation

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Brief | 15 January 2018

Head of Green Party versus four families in court

Noordhoek eviction case highlights complex land issues

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News | 12 January 2018

Police failed to protect us from mob justice, says Eastern Cape family

Man’s house burned down after he was accused of a stabbing which never took place

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News | 9 January 2018

Sewage spill spoils children’s holidays

PE residents have been complaining to the municipality for months

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News | 9 January 2018

Teenager shot with rubber bullet after land occupation

13-year-old shot in knee as residents’ shacks demolished

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News | 8 January 2018