Cape Town needs rent control. Here are six ways we could do it
By Gabbi le Roux, Adam Narain and Jonty Cogger From 2023 to 2024, the average rent in the Western... Read more
18 Nov, 2025
Boom or bust? – Foreign millions fuel Cape Town’s price explosion
Cape Town – Property prices in Cape Town have risen sharply in recent years, fuelled partly by an influx... Read more
11 Nov, 2025
Flood victims still in limbo — only 25 families housed as thousands left homeless in Mthatha
Cape Town – Thousands of Mthatha residents remain without housing after a devastating June flood — declared a natural... Read more
28 Aug, 2025
Millions were spent to relocate these families, but they still live in squalor
Residents at Khutsong Hostel in Carletonville, Gauteng say they live in deplorable conditions as the hostel’s walls have deep... Read more
31 Jul, 2025
‘A grave would be better than my shack,’ says Kariega resident
About 70 shack dwellers of Phase 1 Area 11 informal settlement, who live next to 300 toilets without houses,... Read more
11 Jul, 2025
City of Cape Town to evict refugees living at two emergency housing sites
About 160 refugees are living in a large white tent on government land at Wingfield in Maitland. They have... Read more
8 Jul, 2025
Explainer: Affordable housing in Cape Town
Maitland Mews, a social housing development built on land previously owned by the City of Cape Town, was completed... Read more
7 Jul, 2025
Pensioner has to live in shack despite ‘owning’ RDP house for 17 years
Bridget Mokhetle holds the title deed to her RDP house which she has not been able to live in... Read more
6 Jun, 2025
Joburg wheelchair users demand houses
People with disabilities gathered at the Bixton Multipurpose Centre earlier this week and demanded more RDP housing opportunities for... Read more
8 May, 2025
Former MPs refuse to leave their subsidised housing in parliamentary villages
Acacia Park in July 2020. Photo: City of Cape Town Map Viewer By Raymond Joseph Three former MK Party... Read more
3 Apr, 2025
