Find, make, use. Food, shelter and safety in the city

Access to affordable living space is a challenge in many cities, and very hard in Cape Town where levels of inequality are among the worst in the world. Where marginal spaces are found, the legal and practical realities make any living arrangement risky and insecure. Using space to grow food becomes untenable, even where healthy soil and access to sunlight can be found. How do the underresourced residents find their way to healthy food, secure shelter and safe spaces in such a city? And what resources can they draw on in the face of a crisis like COVID-19? What creative solutions and innovations have we overlooked that might point the way to a different post-crisis future?

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