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BOSA says new DA housing pledge will not clear Cape Town’s housing backlog [SOUND]

# Build One South Africa has hit back at the DA’s latest housing pledge for Cape Town, calling it too little, too late. Mayoral candidate Geordin Hill-Lewis unveiled a new affordable housing plan yesterday ahead of the local government elections. However, BOSA’s Roger Solomons says the numbers tell a different story, with just over seven-thousand-400 housing opportunities delivered across the Western Cape in the past year, against a demand list of more than 490-thousand households:

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