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The City of Cape Town has announced housing development that is ‘moving towards inclusion’ – but inclusion for whom? Photo: File

‘Inclusive’ housing a start but we need deeper affordability in Cape Town

True inclusion means deep affordability, long-term protections and treating housing, not as an asset class, but as a right

Economists at the 2022 Tax Indaba weighed in on South Africa’s economic prospects, as growth flatlines. (Photo by GUILLEM SARTORIO / AFP)

Crisis is an opportunity to heal South Africa’s divisive spatial geographies

Apartheid architecture still strips many of dignity; they are on the periphery and rendered invisible

Shamed: San Francisco Pride marchers protest against Facebook’s policy on using ‘anonymous’ names.

Funding focus should be lower-cost urban housing

Increasing housing delivery to address the demand is unlikely to be achieved any time soon given low economic growth and fiscal consolidation

Scenes from Eldorado Park earlier on Monday.

Eldorado Park protests: ‘Government doesn’t want to build us houses’

Protesters and police traded bricks for rubber bullets. Rocks and bricks scattered the streets where debris and tyres lay smoking.

Look to owners and state for ‘bad buildings’

The government has left housing in Jo’burg’s inner city in the hands of the private sector.

Equal distribution of resources will not close the access gap. Instead, resources must be deployed where they are needed most – and low-cost housing must move from the urban periphery too

Housing and jobs go hand in hand

Both are urgently required and the solutions to housing provision and job creation are relatively simple.

Equal distribution of resources will not close the access gap. Instead, resources must be deployed where they are needed most – and low-cost housing must move from the urban periphery too

State to tackle housing title deed mess

On the cards is the building of 1.5-million homes for the elderly, poor and child-headed households.

Soshanguve residents battle floods every December

Low-cost housing developer Gough Cooper Homes sold Soshanguve residents down the river when it built houses on the flood plain of the Soutpanspruit.

The Cato Manor project in Durban

Community champions

The Community Award is for projects that have rolled out innovative energy projects in rural or urban communities.

Nine sites have been identified in KwaZulu-Natal

Greening low-income housing developments

The IDC’s Green Industries unit has invested heavily in supporting the rollout of energy efficient alternatives to South Africa’s households.

Contested space: Soweto’s Community Residential Units in Mzimhlophe are yet to be occupied.

Crumbling hostels refuse to go away

A lack of management as well as distrust and infighting have brought redevelopment to a halt. Kwanele Sosibo reports.

Sexwale: New strategy to fix housing problems

Tokyo Sexwale assured MPs on Thursday that problems of faulty construction in low-cost housing projects "are a drop in the ocean".