WATCH: GOOD party leader and Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia De Lille and DA mayoral candidate Geordin Hill-Lewis have exchanged accusations about the issue of land available in Cape Town for affordable housing.
“Some of these properties are detailed in the Central City Regeneration Programme released by the provincial government in 2011 by former MEC Robin Carlisle.
“Ten years later, and not a single residential unit has been delivered, let alone a single affordable housing unit.”Before De Lille’s news conference, Hill-Lewis released the results of detailed research and modelling work the DA has undertaken to address the housing shortage in Cape Town. “While I am committed to the release of the 10-hectares of land owned by the City of Cape Town for housing development, the truth is that these small bits of land on their own will hardly make a dent in the housing shortage in our city.
Herron meanwhile dismissed as a joke Hill-Lewis’s proposal that the Acacia Park parliamentary village be released for public housing purposes.