The people living on the streets were housed at Strandfontein sports field in April for less than a month before the shelter was closed down. In community meetings, the City is now being questioned why they could not accommodate the poor in unoccupied City buildings instead of creating wasteful expenditure on temporary shelter.
He stressed that emergency procurement processes were followed in terms of the Supply Chain Management Policy and the Municipal Finance Management Act, to avert human suffering. They sheltered more than double the amount of people living on the streets in comparison to Gauteng. “About 1858 people were also screened for Covid-19, over 120 people re-integrated with their families, 4 500 meals issued a day, 2 000 mattresses and 2 000 blankets procured and distributed to every person.
Badroodien said, at the time, 71 people returned to the street, 31 were placed in quarantine, and 356 were placed in alternative shelters at their request. “This is a dynamic, ever-changing list. As some receive housing opportunities and are taken off the list, others that qualify are added. The list is essential to ensure there is no queue-jumping, that there is fairness and that one person does not get many opportunities at the expense of others.
“Some developments are huge, and in many phases. Work on developing and delivering housing opportunities continues daily, and not all the work that gets put in is immediately visible, of course.
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