City of Cape Town urged to renovate unused buildings for social housing

The City of Cape Town is planning on renovating unused buildings for social development thus creating jobs for the people of Cape Town. Cape Town has been slammed for not doing it and the City has not had any affordable housing in the inner City. The City of Cape Town has a lot of unused building and these unused buildings attract a lot of criminal activities. 

Now that the city is planning to renovate these building there will be available to families with a household income between R1500 to R15000 a month. There city has promised to start renovating the buildings close to the informal settlements. Some of the areas identifies are Parow, Avondale, Elsies River, and the Tygerberg vicinity. Melusi Booi member of the human settlement mayoral committee said “there are no unused city buildings in the inner city. There housing development is at risk in Cape Town because of privately owned land where the government might have an issues building on the privately owned land.

Melusi Booi also said “the city’s human settlements directorate is expected to deliver projects to the value of R2,7billion over the next three years”.

By Chuma Matiwane