A Brief InternAfrica CTCHC History

• 20 September 2004

The 3 ha site off Royal Road, Maitland is situated 10 km from the Cape Town CBD, within walking distance from school and public transport and on the doorstep of Maitland, Epping and Paarden Eiland. The property was identified by the City of Cape Town as strategically and ideally suited for housing. Following previous unsuccessful attempts to dispose of the site for this purpose on the open market the City approached the CTCHC with the challenge to investigate the site as a possible affordable or “gap” housing pilot project.

Following a consultative process, the City of Cape Town agreed to the direct sale of the land to CTCHC at a price of R482 240. The CTCHC took transfer in January 2003 and commenced development soon afterwards.

Alderman Mfeketo said: “As we are all aware, the City is experiencing a major back-log of affordable housing and I am delighted with the success of this proejct. It affords residents wishing to move closer to the inner City the opportunity to do so. The City has the ability to develop similar projects at a range of open or under-utilised Council and State owned land parcels in areas such as Salt River, Woodstock and Maitland. I thank our partners CTCHC and the National Housing Finance Corporation for making this project a reality”. - City of Cape Town

• 6 March 2007

Mudimu had told the committee the steps taken to consult residents about the audit. He said community leaders, Local Government and Housing MEC Richard Dyantyi and Premier Ebrahim Rasool's office had been informed about the defects...

Committee members expressed concern about the R35m repair bill, with some saying this was more than it had cost to build the houses and that the City had forked out R10m for repairs six years ago. - Cape Times

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