Latest articles on Low Cost Housing

Funding focus should be lower-cost urban housing

Article Sabelo Mtantato - 25 May 2018

Increasing housing delivery to address the demand is unlikely to be achieved any time soon given low economic growth and fiscal consolidation

Eldorado Park protests: ‘Government doesn’t want to build us houses’

Article Caroline Vakil - 8 May 2017

Protesters and police traded bricks for rubber bullets. Rocks and bricks scattered the streets where debris and tyres lay smoking.

Look to owners and state for ‘bad buildings’

Article Dennis Webster - 30 Jul 2015

The government has left housing in Jo'burg's inner city in the hands of the private sector.

Housing and jobs go hand in hand

Article Luke Jordan - 7 May 2015

Both are urgently required and the solutions to housing provision and job creation are relatively simple.

State to tackle housing title deed mess

Article Lynley Donnelly - 31 Jul 2014

On the cards is the building of 1.5-million homes for the elderly, poor and child-headed households.

Urbanisation: Low-cost housing not low-cost enough

Analysis Lauren Royston - 10 Apr 2014

There is still no formal plan to cover the need for cheaper inner-city accommodation.

Soshanguve residents battle floods every December

Article Sipho Kings - 9 Jan 2014

Low-cost housing developer Gough Cooper Homes sold Soshanguve residents down the river when it built houses on the flood plain of the Soutpanspruit.

Community champions

Article Advertising Supplement - 6 Dec 2013

The Community Award is for projects that have rolled out innovative energy projects in rural or urban communities.

Greening low-income housing developments

Article Mail Guardian Correspondent - 22 Aug 2012

The IDC's Green Industries unit has invested heavily in supporting the rollout of energy efficient alternatives to South Africa's households.

Crumbling hostels refuse to go away

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 24 May 2012

A lack of management as well as distrust and infighting have brought redevelopment to a halt. Kwanele Sosibo reports.

Sexwale: New strategy to fix housing problems

Article Michael Hamlyn - 28 Jan 2010

Tokyo Sexwale assured MPs on Thursday that problems of faulty construction in low-cost housing projects "are a drop in the ocean".

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