The City of Cape Town’s Law enforcement teams remove the belongings of a group of homeless people who had been living in the city centre in February 2024.Hill-Lewis says they have provided dignified transitional shelters at the city’s Safe Spaces.
“We have built what we call the city’s safe spaces. So they are dormitory-style accommodation with bunk beds. They’ll provide two hot meals per day, a social worker on-site to offer care every single day.” “They offer a nursing sister once a week, referrals for addiction treatment and alcohol and drug treatment. They offer a whole lot of training programmes for job finding and helping to get your ID and so on. So they are actually really wonderful facilities. We’ve built a lot of them over the last two years precisely with this in mind,” Hill-Lewis adds.I’m really encouraged by these comments on the City’s efforts on homelessness.