The City’s pioneering affordable housing programme is characterised by well-packaged and de-risked properties fuelled by public private partnerships. Ratepayers and housing rights activists are rallying against the City’s new housing tenders worth R125.6 million, claiming exclusion from the public participation process and protesting against spatial apartheid. Last week the City announced that the incentivised proposed developments included Brackenfell, Ottery and Lansdowne.
But housing rights activists such as Ndifuna Ukwazi said they have heard the script before, where public land was set to be released for affordable housing while ratepayers cited that old infrastructure could not cope. The City’s Mayco Member for Human Settlements, Councillor Carl Pophaim, stated that it would boost the economy. City said the tenders were readily available on its tender portal on the website.
The closing date for tender submissions has been extended to March 17, to afford bidders sufficient time to submit proposals. The tenders include: Enslin, Ottery Erven 1291 and 1292 and Remainder 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299 and 1300, Ottery. The proposal entails the development of a residential security estate with an estimated 375 residential units in buildings ranging from two to four storeys, providing a mix of affordable housing and market-related rental accommodation.
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Lansdowne – Erven 62594 and portion of Remainder 58699 (unconstructed Lansta Road) situated at the corner of Smuts and Ruby Roads, Lansdowne. The proposal entails the development of a residential security estate with an estimated 308 residential units arranged in four-storey buildings, providing a mix of affordable housing and market-related rental accommodation. Eaon Way – Remainder Erf 3423 situated at 220 Buiten Street, Northpine.
The proposed development of a residential security estate with an estimated 396 affordable rental housing units, together with 34 housing ownership opportunities in two-storey buildings, as well as approximately 800 m² of retail floor space. Ruwari – Erf 9702 situated at 10 Affodil Street, Ruwari Brackenfell. The proposed development of a residential security estate with an estimated 115 affordable rental housing units accommodated in two to three storey buildings, together with 30 housing ownership opportunities in two-storey buildings, as well as approximately 60 m² of retail floor space. Pophaim added: ‘We currently have a pipeline of over 12,000 residential units, including in the central Cape Town inner city areas.
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