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Elections 2026: Affordable housing – has the City of Cape Town done enough?

The City’s plans for 28,400 affordable homes may pay off but it won’t be soon

Two-bedroom flats in the Cape Town CBD are advertised on Property24 for an average rental of about R29,400 a month. Archive photo: Steve Kretzmann

The City of Cape Town has told the Western Cape High Court it plans about 28,400 affordable homes.
But none of the affordable housing projects the City has approved since 2017 for the CBD, Woodstock, Salt River, Observatory or Sea Point has been finished. The national government’s social housing grants supposed to fund these developments did not materialise.
The City now depends on private developers to build non-subsidised affordable housing on discounted land.

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