Housing activists have slammed the City of Cape Town for blaming the delays in building inner-city housing on building hijackings. | MarvinCharles_
The City this week secured heritage approval to commence its biggest inner-city social housing development, which will see around 700 housing units being built at the site of the old Woodstock Hospital.
"There are now pending eviction proceedings following the Western Cape High Court granting the City an order to survey the number of occupants and [their] individual circumstances," he said. "We also passed guidelines for discounting public land to maximise affordable housing units on the land we release and ensure project viability."Cape Town's housing crisis: Lobby groups say there is a lack of progress, City disagrees
Housing advocacy group Ndifuna Ukwazi said the recent progress was long overdue, with the City having promised to develop the land in 2017."It is dishonest that the City claims that occupation is the biggest obstacle when it has failed to produce any inner-city affordable housing since the dawn of democracy. If anything, the recent progress should be partially attributed to activist pressure.
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