Housing
Cape Town to pilot “safe space” for homeless people
Councillor says new approach may be more successful at reducing the number of people living on the streets
By Aidan Jones
News | 20 March 2018
Cape Town housing activist fatally stabbed
Latest of several violent incidents allegedly involving security guards at Helen Bowden Nurses Home
News | 19 March 2018
Mfuleni’s evicted land occupiers squat in makeshift communal shacks
“The shack becomes jam-packed in the evening”
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 19 March 2018
Evicted residents distressed at prospect of living in Wolwerivier
The temporary relocation area is far from social grant paypoints, medical facilities, shopping malls, work opportunities and the police station
News | 19 March 2018
PE officials and residents debate land occupations
Municipality encourages people to register on housing database but backyarders say the wait is too long
News | 16 March 2018
Scores left homeless after demolitions in Makhaza
Spate of land occupations in Cape Town continues
Brief | 14 March 2018
Are resident associations being captured by the property industry?
Sea Point shows how developers use these organisations to advance their own interests
By Gavin Silber and Sarita Pillay
Analysis | 14 March 2018
Court orders Brett Herron to explain emergency housing options
City officials to visit Wolwerivier with activists this weekend
News | 13 March 2018
New land occupation in Kraaifontein
93 families say they wish to establish a crime free informal settlement for themselves
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 13 March 2018