Housing

Rent instead of owning: Is it a better model for low-income housing?

We explain an important part of the government housing programme

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Feature | 22 November 2017

Why Woodstock needs affordable housing

Affordable housing is necessary. Let’s work together to make it a success

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Opinion | 20 November 2017

Beacon Bay community takes protest to mayor

Showdown looms as residents demand timeframes but Xola Pakati refuses to give any.

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News | 17 November 2017

“Nowhere to hold my brother’s funeral”

Pietermaritzburg families’ long wait for promised houses

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News | 14 November 2017

Family of 8 live in one-room mud house

Disabled daughter doesn’t get her grant because of a birth certificate problem

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News | 11 November 2017

Fire in Cape Town inner city slum

Families now have to sleep in a hall inside the building

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Brief | 10 November 2017

“I’m 83 years old and I will die homeless”

Elderly residents of Pietermaritzburg are renting RDP houses they had hoped to own

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News | 10 November 2017

Affordable housing in Cape Town: are we being fooled?

Rush to build it all in Woodstock and Salt River

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Opinion | 9 November 2017

65-year-old loses shack in flood

Thembinkosi Mvinjelwa has been waiting for a formal house for many years

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Brief | 9 November 2017

Families live in fear below high-voltage lines

Shack dwellers in Sondela informal settlement have no legal electricity, rubbish collection or toilets

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News | 8 November 2017

Cape Town’s city centre slum

Residents abandoned by landlord. Now Public Works wants to evict them.

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News | 8 November 2017

Ward committee members accused of renting out people’s RDP houses

Endumeni Local Municipality taken to court

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News | 6 November 2017

Attempted land occupation in Kraaifontein

Occupiers say they want the City to help them acquire land peacefully

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News | 6 November 2017

Katlehong family evicted over home loan arrears of R1,000

Nedbank responds to queries about Mashaba case

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News | 6 November 2017

“We will die waiting for our houses”

Elderly shack dwellers in East London have been waiting for formal housing for 25 years

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News | 3 November 2017

No electricity delivery, so illegal suppliers thrive

“It is clear that all basic services are in our hands and not the relevant people”

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News | 3 November 2017