Under Patricia de Lille, the Democratic Alliance (DA) gutted the housing department. Public housing took a “catastrophic plunge” from over 12,400 houses delivered in 2012/2013 to 6681 three years later. 2017/2018 had fewer than 1000 built. “You’ve got to judge De Lille by what she does, not what she says. What she says is really progressive… all the right language… a transformed Cape Town. She wins the most powerful electoral mandate of any mayor (to do that). Instead, where does she spend that political capital? And it’s not just her, … Read the full article…