Reclaim the City is a movement of tenants and workers campaigning to stop our displacement from well-located areas and secure access to decent affordable housing. We believe it is time to take the struggle for housing to the centre of the city, to the heart of power, to the people who should live there, and to the land that matters. Land for people, not profit!
Reclaim the City members want to build an inclusive spatially just city. We are campaigning for the redistribution of empty and underutilised public land to poor and working class people. We provide support and solidarity to our members who are struggling with landlords and being evicted into homelessness. We believe they can be no just eviction in a housing crisis and we will give advice, defend and resist unjust evictions in the courts and on the streets. We provide the only temporary accommodation for evictees and homeless people at Ahmed Kathrada House and Cissie Gool House.
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@GrowAwaySA @Our_DA @CityTshwane @ReclaimCT @dailymaverick @NdifunaUkwazi @bmsmad @dalli_weyers @Xila_Notywala @MandiShandu @max__plant Yes, we have set up a team to drive this as quickly as possible within the law. Following the methodology we have followed to expedite the Conradie Better Living Model
@GrowAwaySA @Our_DA @CityTshwane @ReclaimCT @dailymaverick @NdifunaUkwazi @bmsmad @dalli_weyers @Xila_Notywala @MandiShandu @max__plant @WesternCapeGov I will certainly enquire where we are with that property -- and find out exactly what the plans for it are.
@helenzille @Our_DA @CityTshwane @ReclaimCT @dailymaverick @NdifunaUkwazi @bmsmad @dalli_weyers @Xila_Notywala @MandiShandu @max__plant There is also Founder's Garden behind Artscape which has 24,000m2 developable land and was rezoned in 2016 for a PPP. I've seen the plans (and the bills for the consultants) and no there is no housing component. Could be built next year.
2@helenzille @Our_DA @CityTshwane @ReclaimCT @dailymaverick @NdifunaUkwazi @bmsmad @dalli_weyers @Xila_Notywala @MandiShandu @max__plant Same goes for Moray Place. In your court papers regarding #Tafelberg Province claims its in the pipeline but I know nobody is working on it. Its in Oranjezicht (your hood!) , is zoned GR4 and has no heritage buildings either! Again could happen in 3 years.
@helenzille @Our_DA @CityTshwane @ReclaimCT @dailymaverick @NdifunaUkwazi @bmsmad @dalli_weyers @Xila_Notywala @MandiShandu @max__plant Great, & Premier can you also please get a Gant chart for Topyard it belongs to @WesternCapeGov , already zoned GR4, just outside of CBD, no heritage & is vacant except to store government vehicles! Construction could start within 3 years (I even have Gary's feasibility report)
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