There are approximately 2 000 social housing units already in the pipeline for the central Cape Town area. Around 2 500 social housing units are also nearing completion or about to commence construction along the Voortrekker Corridor and near important economic nodes. This figure relates only to social housing projects, and excludes other forms of affordable or inclusionary housing driven by the City and private sector.
Selected central Cape Town Social Housing projects at various stages include:
- Projects nearing construction phase include Pine Road (about 240 social housing units) and Dillon Road (+/- 150) in Woodstock; Salt River Market (+/- 200); and Maitland (+/- 200).
- Projects undergoing land use management processes to be made available for social housing include New Market (+/- 300); Pickwick (+/- 400); and Woodstock Hospital precinct (+/-700).
- Woodstock Hospital, one of the City’s largest priority projects in central Cape Town, has favourable conditions for development but has been delayed by orchestrated building hijacking that started in 2017. The City have since sought to unlock the known potential of the site for social housing, while following the correct legal processes/routes.
- Potential projects at early feasibility stage in the inner city pipeline include Fruit and Veg (150 units) amongst other opportunities;
Western Cape Government-driven projects, supported by the city, include the Conradie development in the inner city feeder suburb of Pinelands, Founders Garden, Foreshore Precinct and Helen Bowden Nurses Home in Green Point (also subject to a building hijacking by Ndifuna Ukwazi). All have significant potential for social housing unit yields.
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Besides central Cape Town, the metropolitan area further consists of various important economic nodes, including Century City, Tygervalley, Mitchells Plain, Khayelitsha, Phillippi, Atlantis, Somerset West and Cape Town’s second CBD and major public investment project, Bellville.
The Voortrekker Road Corridor, which links the CBD to Bellville, is being spatially targeted to expand economic opportunity for business activity, jobs, affordable housing, and public transport.
The other primary road corridors that the city is targeting for transit-oriented development are: Main Road in the southern suburbs; the R27, Marine Drive, Koeberg Road and Blaauwberg Road; Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki roads in Khayelitsha; AZ Berman Drive in Mitchells Plain; and Symphony Way towards Bellville.
A total of about 2 500 social housing units are either nearing completion or about to commence construction, along the Voortrekker corridor or near important economic nodes.
The City has also, from as early as 2009, pursued the release of the National Government’s mega-properties for mixed-use development. This includes the inner City’s Culemborg; Wingfield along the Voortrekker corridor; Youngsfield in the south; and Ysterplaat, adjacent to Century City.
