The housing crisis in Cape Town could be considerably reduced if underutilised land, currently occupied by the military, was released for social housing. This is according to a collective of civil society organisations who have called on the President to take action. Their calls echo those made by the City of Cape Town for at least a decade.
About 668 hectares of well-located, underutilised land exists at the Wingfield and the Ysterplaat airbases, adjacent to Century City, and at Youngsfield, between Wynberg and Ottery.
