Low Cost Housing

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

Apartheid architecture still strips many of dignity; they are on the periphery and rendered invisible

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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