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A survey of Cape Town residents has found that almost 94% oppose the City's proposed N2 Edge Safety Project, a 9km barrier between Khayelitsha and Langa budgeted at about R114 million.
The City of Cape Town says the clearing of the Gate 7 informal settlement at Maitland Cemetery followed a private owner's eviction order, as displaced families spent the weekend sleeping in the open.
More than 2,000 beneficiaries of the West Bank Land Restitution Project in kuGompo have waited almost 30 years without a single house being built, and some original claimants have died in the interim.
Property groups have welcomed Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement as a stable fiscal plan, but say lower interest rates are needed to revive the housing market.
A halfway review of eThekwini's Defend The City programme reports more than 1,000 tonnes of waste removed and a 32.2 per cent fall in property-related crime, while warning that stabilisation is not transformation.
A R48.9 million Johannesburg Social Housing Company contract to convert a Booysens building into 40 social housing flats is still a construction site more than three years after it was awarded, with Joshco's own reports showing 45 per cent completion.
Commercial property owners are sinking boreholes, installing backup tanks and leak-detection systems as municipal water failures threaten tenant operations, independent property analyst Keillen Ndlovu tells Moneyweb.
The Gauteng High Court has dismissed an application by the Residential Communities Council for an order declaring estate accreditation fees lawful, leaving the practice to be judged on the facts of each case.
The City of Cape Town has handed keys to 26 families at the Florida housing site, the latest phase of the Elsies River Infill Housing Project spread across six sites.