The City of Cape Town has extended the public participation period for the sale of the old Woodstock Hospital site, which is currently occupied by individuals as part of an affordable housing campaign. While the city aims to develop the site for social and affordable housing, residents and occupiers raise concerns about potential displacement and homelessness.
The public participation process to release the old Woodstock Hospital site for the development of affordable housing has been extended. This follows a Woodstock Residents’ Association meeting on Wednesday where some residents expressed concern that the site’s occupiers will be rendered homeless should the sale go ahead. A few residents welcomed the possibility of a new development, hoping it would increase their property values.
The City of Cape Town has said the site will be disposed of and could become one of the biggest social and affordable housing opportunities. The hospital site has been unlawfully occupied in 2017 as part of the Reclaim the City affordable housing campaign, and its occupiers face an uncertain future. Many of the occupiers moved there after being evicted or displaced from their homes in Woodstock due to gentrification. The occupiers have renamed the hospital Cissie Gool House. The initial deadline for comments on the matter was Wednesday, 27 November. But the City has now extended it to the end of January 2025 to give enough time for more people to comment on the future development of the property. Ashura Easton told Wednesday’s meeting she has been living at Cissie Gool House for nearly seven years. ‘There are a number of women-headed households residing at the (occupation). Who would then become homeless? It would be women with children, and the elderly living with their grandchildren,’ she said at the meeting on Wednesday. Easton said it’s not that the occupiers don’t want to pay rates. ‘We’d love to put electricity in our box. We’d love to put something towards the water,’ she said. Lorenzo Johnson from the Development Action Group (DAG), whose family lives in Woodstock, told the meeting he was concerned about the sale. ‘We’d love to see an integrated, diverse inner-city where everybody can live and work together.’ He noted that he did not want to see families displaced and forced to spend a lot of money to travel in and out of the city centre
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