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The City of Cape Town has announced housing development that is ‘moving towards inclusion’ – but inclusion for whom? Photo: File

‘Inclusive’ housing a start but we need deeper affordability in Cape Town

True inclusion means deep affordability, long-term protections and treating housing, not as an asset class, but as a right

Housing: Leeuloop Precinct Development in Cape Town, along with two other proposed mixed-use projects, will provide much needed affordable rental accommodation in the innter city. Photo: Supplied

Social housing is essential, but should it be rental-only?

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

Jabulane Sambo, 62, is on the waiting list for a government house. (Aarti Bhana/M&G)

Human settlements department can’t meet demand for housing

The department’s budget is too small to meet the demand for homes

Breathing space: In Woodstock, properties are small and few homeowners have gardens, a fact an urban park could alleviate. (David Harrison)

Conserve historic Castle bowling green in Woodstock — study

There’s enough space at the old hospital site for the social housing units meant for a park in densely populated Woodstock

Controversy: The city council wants to put a social housing development on the site of an abandoned hospital in Woodstock, Cape Town, Photos: David Harrison

City clings to Woodstock report that might alter housing plan

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

The City of Cape Town is proceeding with its land release on the historic Castle bowling green in Woodstock, despite a decision by the Western Cape Heritage council to endorse a heritage impact assessment recommending the land be preserved as urban green space.

For Cape Town – with love and squalor

Political rhetoric can’t plaster over the city’s divides and rewrite its haunted past

In the mix: The land earmarked for the project includes Woodstock Hospital. (David Harrison/M&G)

City bulldozes into social housing project in Woodstock, Cape Town

Residents say the council ignored objections against the development, and is pressing on despite a pending final heritage impact assessment

It is regrettable that people who claim to speak for the working class and poor are trying to block it. (David Harrison)

Golf-club lease dispute opens forced-removal wounds

The City also said if the lease were renewed it would reconsider how much the Rondebosch Golf Club would have to pay each month.