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Milkwood – Committed To The Affordable Housing & Employment Shortages Of Cape Town

Milkwood is the largest single development opportunity in South Africa and the Regenerative whole-systems urban design approach ensures that it will be a fully functional, sustainable and regenerative urban build. This presents a paradigm shift in the context of urban development, in South Africa and on the African continent, amidst a current imbalance where unemployment, poverty and increasing cost of living cannot bridge the ever-widening gap between self-sufficiency and remaining impoverished. Milkwood intends changing this dynamic, where citizens enjoy a lifestyle conducive to developing a community environment for the benefit of all.

The demand for homes in South Africa is gaining increasing attention with the total housing backlog in South Africa being over 2.3 million homes with 400,000 within the City of Cape Town; and it is expected be many more in the near future. The demand is significant and has not yet been fully utilized in South Africa, nor Cape Town, as potential to turn around an economy struggling to create jobs. At the same time, there is investment targeted towards infrastructure development. Regenerative whole-systems brings these two impetuses together to create regenerative urban build making. The demand which will characterize urbanization in Africa over the next four decades will require at least 800 cities of a million people each, similar in size to what is being planned at Milkwood in Cape Town by Regenerative whole-systems.

Capetonians deserve to have their dignity restored, to be uplifted out of the squalor of ‘shackland’ and to live in dignified human settlements that offer safe walking distances: to their place of work, to their children’s schools and to their family’s healthcare facilities, where infrastructure and services can be relied upon to ensure that dignity is returned to our people.