🏠 Calls are mounting for the release of 668ha of underutilised, well-located military land to help relieve Cape Town’s housing crisis. Read the story ⬇️
in December 2020 to release the land for mixed development and incremental housing.
“The HDA does not seem to have made progress on land that has actually been released to it,” they say.The organisations say social housing development on the military sites would considerably contribute to dismantling apartheid development barriers still existing in the city. Continued spatial apartheid has working class and poor residents confined to the margins of the city, distanced from work opportunities, and subject to high crime rates and social distress.
In response to questions, Graaffs Trust managing director Brett Moore said if the land was no longer used for military purposes it could be repurchased by the trust. Budlender said the organisations had been “keeping an eye on government meetings” and committee meetings in Parliament, but the only thing they’d noticed was feedback from the DPWI to the Select Committee on Transport, Public Service and Administration, Public Works and Infrastructure on 8 June 2022.
Parliament’s select committee meeting of 8 June 2022 discussed the progress on 14,105ha of state land transferred by DPWI for housing development in 2019.
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