SA’s housing crisis: At current rate, it will take eThekwini 100 years to clear backlog

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South Africa’s housing crisis, described by some as a “ticking time-bomb” grows louder in the eThekwini Municipality every year – with an estimated one million people in need of government-assisted housing.

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“Many people will die before they even realise their right to housing,” Desmond D’Sa, a south Durban community activist, said.According to the eThekwini Municipal Spatial Development Framework 2020- 2021, Durban had approximately 3.75 million persons living in some 950,000 dwellings and this was expected to increase to four million citizens by 2020, and to 4.4 million people by 2035.

For the estimated 287 000 people who live in some 500 informal settlements sprawled across the city, the wait for decent housing is too long, said Sbu Zikode, the president Abahlali baseMjondolo, a shack dwellers movement that campaigns against evictions and for decent housing.“The reality is that a person’s life expectancy is not even 100 years, and that statistic in itself creates hopelessness,” Zikode said.

Many people live in cramped conditions in homes such as these that were built by the apartheid government. “If they take all the money that has been stolen in the city and recovered all that money and put it into a plan, and get proper contracts and get a proper plan to roll it out discussing all this with the communities that they serve, I can tell you it won’t take 100 years to build. It’ll take less than 10 years. It's been done, all over the world, and it can be done in South Africa.

The Cornubia housing development situated north of Durban will provide more than 20 000 housing opportunities once completed. In addition, social and gap housing programmes work with private developers were encouraged to facilitate and develop affordable rental and ownership opportunities for those who do not qualify for fully subsidised housing.

 

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