Housing

When government is a slumlord: Pefferville’s ghastly blocks of flats

“When it’s time to vote they will come here in numbers, yet we do not get any services from them”

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News | 19 September 2018

110 families in Mfuleni have no taps, toilets, electricity or even rubbish bin bags

“Government never told us where we should live after we had to move out”

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News | 18 September 2018

Zwelitsha shack-dwellers are building their own toilets and roads

Settlement not a priority, says City of Cape Town

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Feature | 14 September 2018

Gauteng court rules against cheap bank repossessions

Judgment is a victory for Johannesburg homeowners, and possibly homeowners across the country

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Law | 13 September 2018

Did Cape Town lose millions on Foreshore land sale?

City appears to have sold property to Growthpoint for R1,880 instead of R5,000 per square metre of possible floor space

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News | 13 September 2018

Hostel has one toilet for 39 households

“We are being undermined because we are staying in a hostel”

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Brief | 13 September 2018

Affordable Housing: City of Cape Town and developers at crossroads

An inclusionary housing policy can stimulate density and new development

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Opinion | 11 September 2018

Sportsfield now a new informal settlement

Over 300 households are making a life for themselves in newly-named Ekupholeni

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News | 10 September 2018

KwaMashu hostel residents fed up with City’s neglect

“Sometimes I don’t even tell people where I live. I refuse to believe that there is a community allowed to live like this.”

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News | 7 September 2018

We were cheated by Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, say residents

Protests in Uitenhage over housing by relocated residents

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Brief | 6 September 2018

Expropriation from the poor

Reblocking of informal settlements can be development in reverse, argues Jared Sacks

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Opinion | 6 September 2018

We will not be intimidated, says Abahlali leader

Activists defy persistent threats in KZN

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Feature | 5 September 2018

Cape Town approves rezoning of prime property for social housing in inner city

Housing activists want 1,050 affordable apartments in the Somerset Precinct

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News | 5 September 2018

Land occupiers caught in battle between private landowner and tribal council

Ten homes bulldozed in Verulam north of Durban

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Brief | 30 August 2018

Showdown over land occupation in Brakpan looms

Eviction order is in place says councillor, but occupiers vow to resist

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Brief | 30 August 2018

How two audacious occupations are shifting the housing debate

An introduction to our series on the occupations of Helen Bowden Nurses Home and Woodstock Hospital

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GroundView | 29 August 2018