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Low Cost Housing

Funding focus should be lower-cost urban housing
Article
/ 25 May 2018

Funding focus should be lower-cost urban housing

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

By Sabelo Mtantato
Eldorado Park protests: ‘Government doesn’t want to build us houses’
Article
/ 8 May 2017

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

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

By Caroline Vakil
Look to owners and state for ‘bad buildings’
Article
/ 30 July 2015

Look to owners and state for ‘bad buildings’

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

By Dennis Webster
Housing and jobs go hand in hand
Article
/ 7 May 2015

Housing and jobs go hand in hand

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

By Luke Jordan
State to tackle housing title deed mess
Article
/ 31 July 2014

State to tackle housing title deed mess

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

By Lynley Donnelly
Urbanisation: Low-cost housing not low-cost enough
Analysis
/ 10 April 2014

Urbanisation: Low-cost housing not low-cost enough

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

By Lauren Royston
Soshanguve residents battle floods every December
Article
/ 9 January 2014

Soshanguve residents battle floods every December

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

By Sipho Kings
Community champions
Article
/ 6 December 2013

Community champions

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

By Advertising Supplement
Greening low-income housing developments
Article
/ 22 August 2012

Greening low-income housing developments

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

By Mail Guardian Correspondent
Crumbling hostels refuse to go away
Article
/ 24 May 2012

Crumbling hostels refuse to go away

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

By Kwanele Sosibo
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Article
/ 28 January 2010

Sexwale: New strategy to fix housing problems

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

By Michael Hamlyn

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