on 28 July that the municipality had failed and ordered it to make provision for emergency housing. The ruling reiterated that the Constitution"confers on everyone a right of access to adequate housing".
Citing a 2016 housing report by the municipality, the judge said the demand for housing during this time was about 19 500, and between 400 and 800 formal houses were created every year by the municipality with funds from the provincial government. "The municipality's malperformance, particularly concerning emergency housing, is characterised by a failure to implement proactive planning measures, as well as those plans which it did formulate, being scuppered by its failure [to] self-fund," the judgment read.
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