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townhouses (two storey housing - subsidised), multiplex units
(four storey housing - rental and bonded). As such, the project
is also trying to retrofit suburbia (and creating more value); by
making more housing typologies available and affordable (there
are a number of innovative financial cross-subsidisation available).
Hopefully this example will be the first of many in this country.
It is not only appropriate regulations that deliver successful
cities. Suitable architecture, good housing products as well
as the quality of urban space-making (especially in compact
environments) all contribute to successful cities. Buildings unify
the streetscape as they greatly diversify the choices available for
households of different ages, sizes and incomes.
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Housing should be available and affordable to everyone – after
all, the Constitution of South Africa states: Everyone has the right
to have access to adequate housing.
References
• World Bank Open Data 2016 survey
• Page 16 Image: Missing Middle, Responding to the Demand
for Walkable Urban Living, 2018, Opticos Design, Inc., 15 May
2018, www.missingmiddlehousing.com
• Pages 17, 18 Images: Scottsdene, Cape Town, 2017
Missing Middle Housing