Court ruling ordering alternative housing for homeless in Cape Town is welcomed

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File photo of a homeless man sleeping on a Cape Town road.

The Socio-Economic Rights Institute (Seri) has welcomed a Western Cape high court order for the provision of alternative accommodation to more than 100 people soon to be evicted from public spaces in Cape Town’s inner city. 

Seri, representing the group, said they had conceded from the beginning of the case that their occupation of sites around the inner city was unlawful “and so the main issues in the case concerned the provision of alternative accommodation and its adequacy”.

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