by Gavin Lloyd, Lloyd and Hill
A radically new approach to low cost housing is needed that recognises the limited amount of accessible land available within our cities, that addresses the multitude of social ills carried over from our past, that delivers within a recession and, importantly, that factors in an evolutionary housing path to be followed from our current limited capacity towards more advanced solutions that will be possible in 30 years time. Statistics from the City of Cape Town are used to illustrate the general concepts, which are otherwise applicable to most South African cities.