The big four banks in the Financial Sector Charter agreed to deliver a minimum of R42 billion for new affordable housing.
A public-private partnership between Absa and Government saw the launch today of a R400 million housing development project at Olievenhoutbosch.
Johannesburg Housing Company CEO Taffy Adler said that the new R100m Brickfields residential project in Newtown, Johannesburg, launched yesterday, would see the first high-rise residential buildings erected in the inner city in about 30 years.

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