GROUNDUP: Cape Town tables plan for two Salt River social housing projects

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Announcement hailed as a victory for housing activists.

in the city centre, Woodstock and Salt River would be used to develop social and transitional housing. These are located in Pine Road, New Market Street, Fruit and Veg Drury Street, Upper Canterbury Street, Woodstock Hospital, Woodstock Hospital Park, James Street, Dillon Lane, Salt River Market, Pickwick Road Transitional and Pickwick Road.

Hill-Lewis said that in the last three months, three properties, which include the ones in Salt River and Pickwick Road, with over 1,000 social housing units were presented to the city council. The other projects are Maitland , two projects in Woodstock, Pine Road and Dillon Lane . Inner city projects in the land-use management phase include Newmarket Street and Woodstock Hospital precinct, where Booi claims that around 700 social housing units have been delayed due to “the orchestrated building hijackings of March 2017”.

in and around the City centre. At the time of the occupation, no such housing had been built or was planned by the City.“The struggle to release the Salt River Market for affordable housing dates back to as early as 2008 … These protracted delays need to be addressed systematically and accounted for,” said Ndifuna Ukwazi in their statement on the release of land.that the mayor’s commitment to the Salt River and Pickwick sites was a victory.

 

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‘According to the City’s Municipal Spatial Development Framework, “35,000 housing opportunities must be supplied each year, over 20 years, to meet the current backlog”.’ ImPossible….

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