The outcome of the matter could have far-reaching consequences and will be of importance in the debate over how public land is used and where social housing should be developed.
But since then, the 1.2-hectare site, owned by the Western Cape government, has remained unoccupied and undeveloped.
The housing movement Ndifuna Ukwazi assisted Reclaim the City in its successful application at the Western Cape High Court. The province and city areagainst parts of the judgment, including the finding that they failed to redress spatial apartheid. NU said that while affordable housing was of utmost importance to poor and working-class people, even those formally educated and employed were struggling to keep up with the increase in the cost of living in Cape Town, with properties along the Atlantic Seaboard costing up to R100-million. Without government intervention, nothing would change.
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