#community-resilience

An estimated 14,000+ people sleep rough or in temporary shelters across Cape Town, driven by job loss, mental illness, eviction, addiction and structural housing exclusion. Municipal response oscillates between law-enforcement displacement and small-scale NGO provision — neither

In heatwaves, cold snaps and outages, isolated elderly, mobility-limited, and medically dependent residents are often invisible to neighbors and services — so danger is found only after a missed check-in, while privacy concerns make a naive registry its own hazard.

Knowledge of which civic interventions actually work is scattered across PDFs, news clippings, council minutes and individual experts' heads. A community facing a problem another community already solved has no practical way to find that — so it re-invents the approach, and ofte…