VAN DER WESTHUIZEN J is defined as very cheap housing provided for a maximum of one year. The City uses designated buildings, listed in the policy,73 to accommodate affected households while attempting to address their longer-term needs. These buildings are referred to by the City as ―temporary accommodation as decant‖. The City‘s approach is to engage with communities and, as far as possible and within its resources, relocate households to temporary accommodation from identified ―bad buildings‖, described as ―unfit for human occupation due inter alia to serious fire hazard (they are multi-storey buildings) and/or the risk caused by unhygienic conditions within such buildings.‖74 [79] However, the temporary accommodation programme is not available to persons evicted by private owners. The Housing Report notes that an average of 200 eviction proceedings are instituted each month, and states: ―26 . . . The City does not currently have alternative accommodation available to temporarily or permanently accommodate those who face homelessness as a result of such eviction or threatened eviction. All the buildings that have been identified by the City for purposes of alternative accommodation can be categorised into one of the following categories: 26.1 currently occupied; 26.2 have been earmarked and will be occupied by affected households from other identified buildings; 73 Id at para 25. 74 Id at para 24. The City notes that prior to this Court‘s judgment in Olivia Road above n 12, the City obtained eviction orders against the occupiers of ―bad buildings‖ by way of section 12 of the National Building Regulations and Building Standards Act 103 of 1977, but since that judgment such evictions have ceased and the City now seeks to relocate the occupiers of such buildings voluntarily. The Housing Report states at para 24: ―The City considers it a priority to assist the occupiers of these buildings by relocating them to temporary accommodation because of the threat to their lives. The City endeavours to do so on an emergency basis within its resources. . . . The City‘s approach is to engage in so far possible, with the owners and occupiers of these buildings in order to negotiate the urgent voluntary relocation of the occupiers to temporary alternative accommodation provided by the City‖. 37

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