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Huge court victory in battle for affordable housing in Cape Town

ConCourt rules that Western Cape government and City of Cape Town are constitutionally obliged to provide affordable housing in the inner-city

The site of the former Tafelberg School in Sea Point will be used for social housing as a result of a decade-long campaign by housing activists. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks.

The Constitutional Court has ruled in favour of housing activists in the final chapter of an almost decade-long court case against the sale of the former Tafelberg School in Sea Point.
The court ordered that the Western Cape government and City of Cape Town must submit to the High Court detailed plans on how they are reversing spatial inequality through affordable housing.
High property prices and land scarcity, which are legacies from apartheid, are no excuse for the government to evade its constitutional duties, the court found.

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