Housing
Cape Town launches Safe Space for homeless people
Facility will provide overnight shelter for up to 230 homeless people
By Zakwani Abeidabeeku Zulualabiade
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
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
By Chris Gilili
Brief | 2 July 2018
Hope for Johannesburg waste pickers
The City has committed to including them in recycling efforts, but activists are sceptical
By Zoë Postman
News | 2 July 2018
Why do informal settlements get cluttered with litter?
UCT survey of Island in Khayelitsha provides some answers
By Emma Green
Science | 29 June 2018
Blikkiesdorp residents frustrated by housing delays
City councillor estimates new RDP homes will be completed in two years
Text by Vincent Lali. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
Photo Essay | 29 June 2018
Rubber bullets fired at EFF-led Brakpan land occupiers
300 shacks demolished but occupiers say they are not leaving
News | 27 June 2018
Protesters accuse ANC of job favouritism and shut down construction site
Residents of KwaNobuhle demand repairs to their RDP homes
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
GroundView | 27 June 2018