City of Cape Town resumes the sale of public land to the highest bidder while affordable housing remains a crisis
15 September 2019
The City of Cape Town has advertised the sale, by public auction, of a number of public properties that could be used for the public good.
The auction is advertised for Tuesday 17 September 2019 and includes public properties that should be used for addressing an affordable housing crisis and spatial integration.
Public land that is zoned Group Residential 1 (GR1) is already zoned for medium-density residential development including low-rise flats.
Included in the advertisement, in this weekend’s papers, is public land zoned GR1 in Durbanville for example. It is thus immeadiately available for an appropriate scale affordable housing development.