City of Cape Town finds ways to help the homeless

By Sasha Forbes
01 October 2008

During today’s Mayoral Committee meeting in City Chambers, the Mayoral Committee, with the Homeless Agency Portfolio Committee, identified the need for a City Street People’s Conference. The conference is held in order to discuss how the City of Cape Town will help the homeless integrate back into society.

Executive Deputy Mayor Councillor Grant Haskin of the ACDP says “it aims to assess the impact of our policies and our programmes that deal with street people and to make enhancements to those policies and those programmes, so that we can be assured that whatever we are doing for street people is indeed in their best interest.”

The conference also concentrates on long term and short term plans in helping the homeless gain skills that they will need in the long term and to see what they need in the short term.