The issue of public land for housing is emerging as one of the political hot potatoes in the race to lead the City of Cape Town.
Good party mayoral candidate Brett Herron jumped into the fray and said that the DA and Hill-Lewis have no track-record of delivering well-located housing despite 15 years in government in the City.
“On November 1, when voters go to the polls, it will be exactly three years since my resignation from the DA. In that time the DA cancelled all of the affordable housing projects we launched in September 2017,” said Herron. “Our ANC Mayoral candidate , when announced , will outline the ANC’s vision for reversing apartheid spatial planning and establishing integrated human settlements in the City and in our rural municipalities
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