Concourt Win For Cape Town Residents Facing Eviction

Court tells City to provide Bromwell Street residents with temporary emergency accommodation in the inner city as close to their current homes as possible.

Residents of Woodstock's Bromwell Street, who have waged an eight year legal battle to stop them from being evicted from the houses they, and generations before them, have always called home, celebrated on Friday.

This after the Constitutional Court barred their eviction until the City of Cape Town has developed a new housing programme, incorporating transitional housing.

At present, the City's programme does not make any provision for inner-city temporary emergency accommodation, and does not consider the circumstances of people, particularly those who face eviction and the very few who, for years, have resisted forced removals under successive Group Areas Acts.