Thursday, February 28, 2008

Housing crisis centre stage at Summit

The Western Cape housing crisis takes centre stage at a summit in Cape Town this morning.

The summit will feature submissions from provincial housing officials, party heavy-weights and community organisations.

The Delft housing debacle is also expected to come up for discussion.

The Western Cape housing department faces a host of challenges following the illegal occupation of N2 gateway homes in December.

Heated debates around the province's critical housing shortage are expected to continue today.

Participants include Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool, housing councillors from the province's municipalities and several civic organisation and backyard dwellers associations.

However, one of the housing department's biggest critics, Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign Chair, Ashraf Cassiem says he's simply not interested.

Delegates are expected to come up with resolutions to counter the backlogs. - 567 Cape Talk

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