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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Our movement was formed in 2016, since then we have achieved a lot in the struggle for affordable housing in the inner-city and well-located areas.
This video takes us through some of Reclaim the City's first moments and its current state.
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The issue of land is not just a Cape Town issue but it is a global issue and it is through this realisation that we work with other activists all around the world.
In this video you get to see their message of support.
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Today RTC holds its second annual congress.
Our comrades are preparing meals for our annual congress. There will be loads of live entertainment, screening, political discussions to advance our land and housing campaigns.
Land for people, NOT for profit!
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We cannot allow this to continue! Access to adequate housing matters, where people live matters!