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Housing gets cash boost
A MULTIMILLION rand loan agreement with a French agency will be used for housing for the low- to middle-income sector.
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New homes for Cosmo City
A NEW townhouse complex, offering social rental housing, is a "quiet and very chilled" place to live, say tenants.
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Summit looks at housing
MILLIONS of homes have been built, but housing is still a burning issue, participants at a human settlement summit point out.
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Homes for Drieziek residents
A HUNDRED houses were built in Drieziek in just five days, with help from volunteers, professional builders and government officials.
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Building houses in a week
VOLUNTEERS have pitched in and are helping to build 100 houses in five days in the new neighbourhood of Drieziek Extension 5.
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City wants shack dwellers' buy-in
A NEW City strategy for the formalisation of informal settlements looks at getting residents to add their own resources to the solution.
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This is where my heart is - my home
BENEFICIARIES are moving into the newly built homes on the old Soweto golf course in Kliptown, and the change to their lives is palpable.
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Comment sought on housing by-laws
COMPLAINTS from neighbours have prompted the City to draw up by-laws regarding communal housing, particularly regarding student digs.
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Community builds families new homes
TEN families from Section 7, in Diepsloot, are sleeping better at night, with new roofs over their heads, thanks to a Letsema Project community build.
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Hostel developments continue
OVER-CROWDED rooms are a thing of the past for residents of City Deep as government tackles new construction initiatives.
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Disabled learn of housing subsidies
THE criteria for receiving housing subsidies are broader for disabled people, and more money is given to them for modifications to their homes
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Change has come to City Deep Hostel
WHERE once was squalor and isolation, deprivation and darkness, there is now brightness and joy. The City Deep Hostel is in the final stages of refurbishment into decent family homes.
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Fresh growth sprouts in Cosmo City
RESIDENTS are taking to home ownership with gusto in Cosmo City, and the majority is planting the seeds of pride in the massive, diverse community.
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Pennyville finally becomes a home
HUNDREDS of families finally have decent homes of their own in the City's latest mixed housing development, Pennyville.
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Two weeks to resettle foreigners
TEMPORARY shelters set up to house foreigners displaced by xenophobic violence will be pulled down in a fortnight, and the occupants must be re-integrated into their communities.
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Work forges ahead at BG Alexander
ONCE complete, hundreds of families will be accommodated at BG Alexander, which is being turned into affordable rental accommodation.
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Housing unit carves up R3bn
A NUMBER of projects are on the go to house the thousands of people in Johannesburg, from formalising informal settlements to building mixed-income estates.
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Hostels to be torn down
THE single-sex dormitories that were a lynchpin of apartheid planning have been given notice. In their places, decent family accommodation will be built.
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Formalisation moves up a gear
JOBURG has a new strategy to speed up the formalisation of informal settlements. This will give residents legal certainty and better housing.
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Housing delivery under spotlight
CITY officials toured informal settlements in Region A to see first-hand the challenges regarding housing in the area, where land is at a premium.
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