By Kenneth Matlawe All around the walls in the rooms, outside in the dining area and the main hall hang two pictures. In the first, a picture in which a big fish scatters a school of little fish. In the second, the little fish have organized in tight formation, and turned around to pursue the … More HOUSING ASSEMBLY and the Decent Housing for All campaign
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The Housing Assembly was founded in 2011 following a series of activist workshops facilitated by ILRIG and is currently operating in the western cape, in communities like Tafelsig, Khayelitsha, Gugulethu and Blikkiesdorp to name but a few. With many of the activists coming from different areas, housing types and organizations, the need for an organization … More The Housing Assembly
Report on Housing Assembly City Wide Activities – September, 2015 September 2015 was a busy month for the Housing Assembly. We held workshops discussing the issues we face as a result of poor and bad housing conditions we live in, from informal settlements and RDP house to rental stock, TRA’s and backyarders. In these workshops … More September Report
On August 12th the Witzenberg District of the Housing Assembly, in partnership with the Witzenberg Rural Development Centre, the Witzenberg Activist Group, and the Surplus Peoples Project held a Community March in Ceres to protest against poor housing, services and an unaccountable municipality. Housing Assembly members from Cape Town stood in solidarity with our comrades … More March in Witzenberg
The video “The Housing Assembly – Decent Housing for All” came from media workshops and discussions in the first half of 2015. It is online here: It was made with the support of War on Want and Comic Relief. In July 2015 this video screened in the UK when two of our members, Faeza Meyer … More The Housing Assembly video is online
