South Africa: ‘We don’t just need brick and mortar buildings’ – addressing homelessness and housing in Cape Town requires a holistic approach

“We had 350 years of very direct, intentional state action to build a housing system that benefits the white minority at the expense of the black and coloured majority, and we’re going to need similarly intense and direct state intervention if we’re ever going to overcome that. If we want to address homelessness at its root cause, then we need to build as much affordable housing in well-located areas as we possibly can to ensure that the wealth and benefits of our city are more…