South Africa: Housing in South Africa - How Have We Done Since 1994?

We've made progress but the quality of the data is poor, especially the latest census

The state, according to its records, has provided 5-million brick and mortar houses or serviced plots since 1994.

To put this article together we looked at several documents published by the government, including the censuses. There are severe shortcomings with the data as we show. There have been censuses in 1996, 2001, 2011 and 2022. Households are divided into"formal" ,"informal" ,"traditional" , and"other". While the number of traditional households has been dropping across censuses, it seems unlikely that the massive drop between 2011 and 2022 reflects people moving directly from traditional houses in places like the Eastern Cape to formal ones, rather than informal ones in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

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