Affordable rental stock is necessary, but social housing should not
just be a holding position for people – it should be a launchpad
to home ownership
The department’s budget is too small to meet the demand for homes
There’s enough space at the old hospital site for the social housing units meant for a park in densely populated Woodstock
A social impact assessment recommends a bowling green in the Cape Town suburb be made into a community park, not used for social housing — and residents agree
Political rhetoric can’t plaster over the city’s divides and rewrite its haunted past
Residents say the council ignored objections against the development, and is pressing on despite a pending final heritage impact assessment
The City also said if the lease were renewed it would reconsider how much the Rondebosch Golf Club would have to pay each month.