Housing

The absence of an inner city housing strategy that is able to provide households with affordable housing - while maintaining a balance between different income levels - leads to serious housing and urban challenges: overcrowding, slum-lording, living with limited or no access to basic services and urban decay. Our aim is to imagine and develop - together with residents and local activists - proposals on various layers of housing design and policy (at the house or flat, at the building, at the neighbourhood levels). We hope that these proposals can be used for possible debate and thus positively impact on the future lives and livelihoods of Yeoville residents. The re-design of housing in an existing neighbourhood in a prime location next to the city centre could become a new South African prototype: multicultural and inclusive, dense, green, and respectful of its citizens - a neighbourhood that is fair and affordable.