Pandemic highlights SA’s social inequalities
THE COVID-19 pandemic has shone the brightest spotlight yet on South Africa’s social inequalities and has served as a wake-up call for town planners and housing policy makers.
The national hard lockdown saw large families confined to tiny houses with poor ventilation and hundreds of neighbours sharing the same taps and toilets – while they were supposed to be social distancing.
Densification has therefore emerged from the pandemic as an enemy of health security but, as urban planners explain, is actually not to blame. A
