Karriem, AbdulrazakKanchau, Clara2022-11-082024-05-032022-11-082024-05-032022https://hdl.handle.net/10566/12971Magister Artium (Development Studies) - MA(DVS)On the last weekend of March 2017, members of the Reclaim the City movement occupied two vacant government buildings: The old Woodstock Hospital on Mountain Road, Woodstock and Helen Bowden Nurses Home, located just about five minutes’ walk to one of Cape Town’s major tourist attractions, the V & A Waterfront. Following protracted contestations against the sale of the Tafelberg site in Sea Point, the Western Cape government committed both sites to address socio-spatial segregation through the development of affordable housing for the low-income families in Cape Town. Reclaim the City then occupied these buildings to put the government to account. Five years later, these occupations are meeting real housing needs.enUrban squattingHousing developmentSegregationCape Town CitySocial developmentUniversity of the Western Cape