Housing
Nigel families waiting 30 years for promised RDP homes
About 100 households still live in shacks in Alra Park while their neighbours on either side live in completed RDP houses
Brief | 2 April 2026
Salt River market families told to leave
About 21 households remain on the site earmarked for social housing
News | 1 April 2026
City of Cape Town housing project has backyarders up in arms
Ravensmead backyarders fear they are being sidelined
News | 1 April 2026
Stellenbosch backyarders demand housing on golf course
Backyarders marched to the mayor’s office on Tuesday
Brief | 25 March 2026
Court blocks building along Cape Town’s Diep River floodplain
The municipality says this is not an eviction, but residents of Dunoon informal settlements are worried
News | 25 March 2026
Bizeleni Gwanya and her disabled daughter were promised an RDP house. Years later, they are still in a mud house
The Flagstaff-Ingquza housing project has stalled due to budget constraints, says Eastern Cape government
Brief | 23 March 2026
Cederberg municipality battles to keep up with sprawling informal settlements
Almost one in five residents of Clanwilliam and Citrusdal live in informal settlements with limited access to water, sanitation, and refuse removal
By Liezl Human
Feature | 20 March 2026
What Cape Town is spending on homes, roads and the N2 wall
The municipality’s plans have been hotly debated
Chart by The Outlier. Text by GroundUp Staff and Peter Luhanga.
Charts | 20 March 2026
Joburg metro cops destroy shacks in Ennerdale
Build us new homes, demand occupiers of land meant for housing that was never built
News | 19 March 2026