Western Cape Human Settlements MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela on Friday said around 3000 families from the Joe Slovo informal settlement in Langa would get homes.
Construction work in the area is due to start in October.
Last year the squatters went to the Constitutional Court to prevent the provincial government from relocating them to make way for houses.
The court ruled that 70 percent of the homes would go to the settlers and they must be extensively consulted about their temporary relocation.
Madikizela said through innovative building strategies more homes will be built than previously planned.
He said, “Instead of building a forty square metre house on a hundred square metre plot, we are actually going to build upward. That is why we are able to accommodate twice the number of people that were initially going to accommodated in terms of the initial plan.”
- Eyewitness News
Construction work in the area is due to start in October.
Last year the squatters went to the Constitutional Court to prevent the provincial government from relocating them to make way for houses.
The court ruled that 70 percent of the homes would go to the settlers and they must be extensively consulted about their temporary relocation.
Madikizela said through innovative building strategies more homes will be built than previously planned.
He said, “Instead of building a forty square metre house on a hundred square metre plot, we are actually going to build upward. That is why we are able to accommodate twice the number of people that were initially going to accommodated in terms of the initial plan.”
- Eyewitness News
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