Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 3 and the previous Part 1 and Part 2.]
By: David A. Smith
It’s taken three days’ worth of posting to describe the three days’ worth of disaster-recovery reblocking that occurred at Joe Slovo township in Cape Town, and like the reblocking, we weren’t quite done in that interval. Now for the most [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the previous Part 1.]
By: David A. Smith
Within twenty-four hours of a fire that destroyed more than 5900 homes in the Cape Town informal settlement of Joe Slovo, more progress had been made in community redevelopment than had been accomplished in the previous fifteen years’ of confrontation. The palimpsests had [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
By: David A. Smith
As we saw yesterday, for fifteen years Joe Slovo had been an informal settlement in the Cape Flats that resisted all attempts at structural improvement. One night, that all changed:
Joe Slovo, March 2009
(A large set of pictures is here, from which this post’s images are drawn. My quotes [...]
By: David A. Smith
The best thing to happen to the informal settlers of Cape Town’s Joe Slovo township began with a spark:
March 9, 2009
On 9th March 2009, a fire razed 500 shacks to the ground, and left 1,500 homeless.
(Unless otherwise captioned, all photos are from iKhayalami and cover the March 9-11 rebuilding days.)
What evolved [...]
This upcoming Friday, March 20, we will kick off the AHI Exchange Seminar Series, occasional events that bring together two experts who between them span the dimensions of affordable housing worldwide:
Practitioners and academics
Global south and global north
US residents and international perspectives
We hand-pick the participants, capitalizing on visits to Boston by those with international experience on [...]
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