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are currently being converted or refurbished; or
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there is no budget available to undertake their refurbishment.
Where an eviction application is instituted by a private landowner and it is
brought to the attention of the City that the matter may be an ‗emergency‘ as
envisaged and defined in Chapter 12 of the National Housing Code, the
procedures described below will apply.‖75
[80] The City‘s housing policy differentiates between those relocated by the City
and those whose eviction is sought by private landowners. Persons relocated at the
instance of the City are housed in temporary accommodation in one of the buildings
made available by the City for this purpose. Persons evicted by private landowners
are however not so housed.
[81] The ―emergency accommodation‖ programme is outlined in the Housing
Report within the parameters of Chapter 12, which aims to assist people who, for
reasons beyond their control, find themselves in an emergency housing situation that
they are unable to address. The City‘s functions, when faced with households in need
of emergency accommodation, are to ―[investigate] and [assess] whether a particular
set of circumstances merits the submission to Province of an application for assistance
under Chapter 12.‖76
[82] Besides the process of application to the province, the City has planned for
City-owned recreational facilities to be used in situations of extreme emergency like
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The City‘s Housing Report then goes on at paras 31-3 to describe the procedure that it thinks should be
followed under Chapter 12: that in an emergency situation the City assesses and investigates the scenario and, if
it feels that it attracts an emergency status, applies to the province for an emergency to be declared and an
emergency project to be approved.
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Id at para 32.
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