Land invasions cost Cape Town R1.3 billion in housing developments

Land invasions have cost the City of Cape Town an estimated R1.3 billion worth...

Housing activists demand release of Tafelberg site in latest petition

Another petition has landed at Premier Alan Winde’s door, seeking his intervention to use...

Poor squeezed out by Cape Town housing shortage

Ursula Felkers moved to ‘Tin Can Town’ in 2007 after being evicted from an...

Rondebosch East fumes over 800-unit housing plan

A proposed housing project on the corner of Kromboom Road and Seventh Avenue in...

CT Mayor aims to use underutilised land for affordable housing

Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis is committed to transforming large, underutilised tracts of land...

Red tape delays Dunoon housing project

Picture and words: Peter Luhanga /GroundUp Six years ago the then Cape Town mayor Patricia...

Huge housing project stopped by ‘masked thugs’

Picture and words: Vincent Lali / GroundUp A huge housing project to relocate thousands of...

CoCT approves new social housing development in Woodstock

The City of Cape Town has approved the release of its sixth inner-city property...

Blow for Woodstock social housing plans

Picture and words: Matthew Hirsch / GroundUp The decision by Heritage Western Cape (HWC) to...

City moves to evict Salt River Market traders amidst housing plans

The City of Cape Town persists in its efforts to remove longstanding traders from...