Housing

Photo of housing protesters

Social housing residents demand option to buy homes

Evicted people, informal settlement residents and backyarders march through city centre

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News | 5 July 2018

Photo of land clearing in Zwelitsha

Emergency housing for Hermanus community

But unclear if it will be enough to placate protesters

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News | 5 July 2018

Photo of mother and daughter next to shack

DA and EFF at odds over Brakpan land occupation

Occupiers want ward councillor to address them in person

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News | 4 July 2018

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Cape Town launches Safe Space for homeless people

Facility will provide overnight shelter for up to 230 homeless people

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Brief | 4 July 2018

Photo of flooding and shacks

How a woman secures her shack when it rains

Masiphumelele’s informal settlement is built on a wetland and regularly floods

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News | 4 July 2018

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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

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Brief | 2 July 2018

Photo of waste picker sorting rubbish

Hope for Johannesburg waste pickers

The City has committed to including them in recycling efforts, but activists are sceptical

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News | 2 July 2018

Photo of clogged up river

Why do informal settlements get cluttered with litter?

UCT survey of Island in Khayelitsha provides some answers

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Science | 29 June 2018

Photo of children playing on a hill just outside Blikkiesdorp, a temporary relocation area (TRA) found about 25km's from Cape Town’s city centre

Blikkiesdorp residents frustrated by housing delays

City councillor estimates new RDP homes will be completed in two years

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Photo Essay | 29 June 2018