Housing

Housing activists build shacks on prime inner-city land

“We are serious about decent and well-located affordable housing,” say protesters

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News | 4 December 2018

Residents of informal settlement block new housing project

Kanana families want to be housed on site

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News | 4 December 2018

Court spells out to SANDF how it must accommodate Marievale residents

But application that the army is in contempt of a previous court order fails

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News | 3 December 2018

Safe Space helping to reintegrate Cape Town’s homeless

“They can help you, but it’s entirely up to you if you want to change your life”

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News | 3 December 2018

Bo-Kaap Youth Movement calls for “peaceful and positive” solution to development impasse

Leadership denies receiving any financial compensation from property developers

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News | 30 November 2018

Westville residents threaten further protests

Port Elizabeth informal settlement divided on relocation and development

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News | 29 November 2018

Getty Mrawuli, 70, has been living in one room for most of her life

“I am still waiting for that house,” says Duncan Village resident

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News | 29 November 2018

Malmesbury residents march against high utility bills

“Two weeks before my husband gets paid, we have no food in the house.”

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News | 23 November 2018

Khayelitsha shack dwellers move onto vacant land to keep out “thugs”

Residents say fires which destroyed their homes started on the vacant land

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News | 22 November 2018