Our Programmes

 

Housing management

YCH manages social housing stock in close cooperation with the residents through tenant committees and tenant meetings. It wants to provide quality accommodation in affordable ways, also working against slum conditions and promoting civic pride. YCH management product aims at being participatory and integrative of physical, social and human aspects. Click here to view a list of our existing housing projects.

 

Housing development

Yeast City Housing continues to identify possibilities for new housing development in the inner city, through Greenfield development, refurbishment or conversion of buildings and offices for residential uses. It wants to develop housing in response to unnecessary dislocation of people that are sometimes caused by so-called urban renewal processes.

 

Housing Information

A housing information desk provides information and advise on how to access various affordable housing options and housing subsidies, as well as information on housing policy, rights and responsibilities. This all happens at our walk-in office in Burgers Park Lane.

 

Community Empowerment

YCH wants to support its tenant community through linkages to other social support services and empowerment programmes. It also wants to ensure that low income housing and social housing in the inner city is on the agenda of relevant role players—local and provincial government, financial institutional, etc—through an active advocacy programme. In conjunction with its partners it advocates inner city residential opportunities for those previously excluded and without access. This is done through local community forums, participation in discussions on urban renewal, and so forth.