The City of Cape Town will add 330 more transitional shelter beds in the coming months to help more homeless people of the street and in warm beds.
330 MORE BEDS FOR THE CITY’S HOMELESS
The City is filing planning approval applications for two new ‘Safe Space’ dignified transitional shelter facilities in Green Point and Durbanville.
The planning approval process will allow any affected parties to comment.
The City has committed more than R142 million over three years to expand and operate Safe Spaces where these are most needed.
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The City wants to remove homeless people from the streets and have them sleep in shelters in warm beds instead.
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According to a statement by the City, it plans to renovate two municipal-owned sites into Safe Spaces in the coming months to help more people off the streets in Cape Town.
These Safe Spaces offer two meals per day, showers and sanitation, and access to various care interventions.
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It also includes helping people to apply for ID books, referrals for mental health care, addiction treatment, job placement, and family reunification.
A 300-bed Safe Space is also on the cards for Green Point to help people off the streets in the CBD and seaboard area.
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The City is also progressing on re-purposing other municipal-owned sites elsewhere in the metro, working with NGO partners, CIDs and residents.
The city also plans to include a 30 bed Safe Space in the new Durbanville Public Transport Interchange (PTI) development.
“Both the Green Point and Durbanville proposals will now follow the full regulatory and planning process before being implemented, during which comment by affected parties will be called for and duly considered,” the City stated.
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Many Capetonians living in public spaces suffer from mental afflictions, addiction, depression, psychosis, trauma, or familial abuse.
Extended national Covid-19 lockdowns and the related economic impact exacerbated this situation.
For this reason, Safe Spaces offer care interventions designed to reintegrate people into society and help them off the streets on a sustainable basis,’ said Councillor Patricia van der Ross, Mayoral Committee Member for Community Services and Health.
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