Housing activists are accusing the City of Cape Town of delaying the delivery of affordable housing in the inner city. | MarvinCharles_
They held marches on Saturday to mark the day when the City released 11 parcels of well-located land within the City Bowl five years ago. These were supposed to be used for affordable housing.
"This walk intends to reset pressure on the City of Cape Town to meet its constitutionally mandated obligation to address spatial apartheid through advancing access to land and adequate housing in well-located areas," said Reclaim the City media officer Karen Hendricks. Hendricks added that she believed the City lacked the necessary urgency to develop the sites since 2017.
GOOD secretary-general and MP Brett Herron said empty promises did little to instil confidence in these repeated announcements. Housing activists held marches around Cape Town urging the City to release 11 parcels of land for affordable housingThe City's mayoral committee member for human settlements, Malusi Booi, said the City currently had more than 6 500 social housing units in the pipeline across 50 land parcels citywide, including 2 000 in central Cape Town.
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