The plan is to renovate two municipal-owned sites into Safe Spaces to expand dignified transitional shelter and help more people off the streets in Cape Town.
The City of Cape Town will add at least 330 more transitional shelter beds to “safe spaces” in the coming months to help more homeless off the streets in different parts of the metro.The City will soon file planning approval applications for two new dignified transitional shelter facilities, in Green Point and Durbanville.
In Durbanville, the City plans to include a 30 bed Safe Space in the new Durbanville Public Transport Interchange development. “We aim to create two new Safe Spaces within the coming months as part of our drive to help more people off the streets in Cape Town by expanding dignified transitional shelter,” said Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis. “Over the last year, we have shifted the City’s policy to care interventions designed to help people off the streets on a sustainable basis.”
“A large number of Capetonians living in public spaces suffer from mental afflictions, addiction, depression, psychosis, trauma, or familial abuse. This situation was exacerbated by extended national Covid-19 lockdowns and the related economic impact.
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