The Constitutional Court ruled on the long-standing Woodstock Bromwell Street evictions of 2016.
CAPE TOWN - The Department of Human Settlements has slammed the City of Cape Town's approach to the housing needs of marginalised people.
In its judgment, the court dismissed the city's housing programme as a thoroughly misguided calling it an ill-conceived project. Since 2016, Bromwell residents have resisted the evictions and challenged the constitutionality of the metro's emergency housing programme.
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