{"id":45829,"date":"2024-07-30T17:04:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T15:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/social-housing-activists-welcome-final-land-release-of-newmarket-street-site-in-woodstock-20240618\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T22:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T20:35:22","slug":"social-housing-activists-welcome-final-land-release-of-newmarket-street-site-in-woodstock-20240618","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/social-housing-activists-welcome-final-land-release-of-newmarket-street-site-in-woodstock-20240618\/","title":{"rendered":"Social housing activists welcome final land release of Newmarket Street site in Woodstock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>More than 300 social housing units are on the cards in Woodstock <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The City of Cape Town last week announced the final land release of the Newmarket Street site.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said the 9 000 m\u00b2 property will yield 375 social housing units and over 350 open market residential units.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 300 social housing units are on the cards in Woodstock as the City of Cape Town last week announced the final land release of the Newmarket Street site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing the full council, Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said the 9 000 m\u00b2 property will yield 375 social housing units and over 350 open market residential units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yusrah Bardien, communications officer for Ndifuna Ukwazi, a housing advocacy group, welcomed the announcement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have been waiting for this for several years in the face of a worsening housing crisis. Social Housing is the only housing programme that has \u2018location\u2019 in its requirements and therefore creates well-located affordable housing, which will contribute to changing the enduring spatial apartheid patterns we currently face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe location of the New Market Street site is at the edge of Woodstock and the inner city, where no affordable housing (has) been built in 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the mayor, the City has now released central Cape Town land parcels with an estimated yield of over 4 900 affordable housing units. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes 2 100 social housing units. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sites include New Market Street, Pine Road, Dillon Lane, and Pickwick in Woodstock, as well as Salt River Market and the now tenanted Maitland Mews development. He added that more developments are in the pipeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original feasibility study for this 9 000 m\u00b2 New Market Street property envisaged 200 social housing units as part of a mixed-use development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hill-Lewis said that number has now increased to 375 social housing units. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs part of our commitment to maximise yield working together with social housing developers, these units will be cross-subsidised by retail space and more than 350 open market residential units.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New Market Street site is in a prime location in Woodstock, close to all amenities and public transport and just five minutes from the Cape Town CBD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carl Pophaim, Mayco member for human settlements, said city-wide there are over 6 500 social housing units at various stages of the planning pipeline across 50 well-located parcels of land. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added these units will benefit qualifying residents who earn less than R22 000 a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hill-Lewis said the City\u2019s housing grant from the national government got a R107 million cut in the current financial year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor a metro like the City of Cape Town, these cuts hit particularly hard because our city is growing faster than any other metro in the country and we\u2019re about to overtake Johannesburg as South Africa\u2019s most populous metro.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the mayor, the City will spend R3,7 billion in informal settlement upgrades and Breaking New Grounds (BNG) housing over the next three years. \u201cThat number includes R126 million for new water, sanitation and waste installations. 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