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provide emergency accommodation for people evicted by private landowners, whether
they are rendered homeless or not. The High Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal
found the policy to be unconstitutional.
[77] The policy is set out in the Housing Report the City files when served with a
notice in terms of section 4(2) of PIE. It states that while the City is taking steps,
within its available resources, to provide access to those in need, it faces challenges of
an existing housing backlog, continuous influx of people into the City through
urbanisation and immigration, illegal land and building invasions, unemployment and
poverty.68 The policy‘s overall goals are stated as formalising informal settlements,
providing 100 000 housing units by 2011 and effectively managing the City‘s housing
stock. These goals are to be achieved through private sector investment, stimulation
of a functioning secondary property market in historically disadvantaged areas and
rejuvenation of the inner city in collaboration with private and government
stakeholders.69 In relation to temporary or emergency accommodation, the City‘s
delivery target for the year commencing 1 July 2010 was to provide 100 beds (that is
one bed per person).70
[78] The
Housing
Report
contains
separate
sections
on
―temporary
accommodation‖71 and ―emergency accommodation‖.72 ―Temporary accommodation‖
68
See Housing Report at paras 7-10.
69
Id at paras 12-3.
70
Id at para 14.6.
71
Id at paras 22-7.
72
Id at paras 28-38.
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