The city has identified 46 flood-prone informal settlements across the metro and assembled a winter task team made up of 25 city departments and external partners under the leading role of the Disaster Risk Management Centre.
The general sense in the room was that the imbizo was little else than a talkshop and residents of informal settlement told the housing minister that they are tired of empty promises.
Bright Adu Larbi, a 38-year-old security guard making 500 Ghanaian cedis (US$45) a month, didn’t need the ongoing economic crisis to feel overwhelmed by the cost of […]
The Housing Assembly is taking on a campaign for an alternative and public housing waiting list.
Residents of particularly informal settlements founded on vacant land during the 2020-2022 lockdown, say that they are subjected to constant harassment by law enforcement officers.
Stellenbosch backyard dwellers declare that they have exhausted peaceful engagement with the municipality
Three families who were allocated houses in Forest Village in Eerste Rivier want answers from the MEC for human settlements after they discovered that ‘their’ houses are occupied.
Funeral arrangements are underway for a homeless man who was shot and killed by a City of Cape Town law enforcement officer.
These are some of the stories we brought you in 2021. Expect more to follow in 2022.
Construction companies with questionable track records continue to rake it in.
Homeless people complain that they cannot afford the R8 entry fee charged at the Kotze Street shelter which belongs to the City of Johannesburg.
Hostel residents in Alexandra township have been decrying lack of services at the hostels since 1994.
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