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The North West Department of Human Settlements will direct about R1.12 billion, or 80% of its settlements budget, towards completing and unblocking stalled housing projects, as roughly 25,400 blocked houses await an estimated R4.6 billion.
Fifty-six vulnerable families in the Kumkani Mhlontlo Local Municipality have received newly built homes under a R65 million Eastern Cape human settlements project targeting 210 houses.
The South African Property Owners Association has appointed Steven Brown, chief executive of Fortress Real Estate, as its president, taking over at the close of the association's 60th anniversary convention.
South Africa's Parliament has demanded answers over about R430 million paid to a consultancy for the stalled Syferfontein Mega City housing development southwest of Soweto, which has been idle for about a decade.
Working families are being priced out of areas near jobs and forced to spend more of their income and time commuting, as advocacy group Ndifuna Ukwazi warns of an “extreme, escalating urban housing crisis” in Cape Town.
Informal structures were demolished in Airport Valley, Gqeberha, on Tuesday as residents were relocated to make way for a 445-unit housing development delayed for more than three years.
Western Cape law enforcement chiefs say illegal land invasions are driving Cape Town's crime crisis, with the City and provincial government pushing for amendments to the PIE Act to give landowners more powers.
The asset and property managers of Fourways Mall have been granted a call option over up to 15% of the R8.4 billion shopping centre after vacancies fell from 18.8% to 6.6% under their stewardship.
The City of Cape Town says its Informal Settlements and Basic Services programme has now delivered 69,194 toilets and 10,101 taps across 848 informal settlements, with a further R44 million allocated for the 2026/27 financial year.