Ndifuna Ukwazi
Cape Town housing and land justice organisation.
Ndifuna Ukwazi said in late September that short lets are strangling Cape Town's housing supply, as the City took comment until 5 October on a by-law to rate full-time lets as businesses from 1 July 2027.
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Ndifuna Ukwazi is a Cape Town housing and land justice organisation.
When the municipality's draft short-let rules were reported on 28 September 2026, the group said short lets are strangling the housing supply. The draft would oblige hosts to register each listing and show its number, and would treat a property available for more than 183 nights a year as a business for rates from 1 July 2027, at about three times the residential rate. Comment closes on 5 October.
The organisation's case rests on concentration. The news site GroundUp counted more than 27,000 Airbnb listings across the city and nearly 6,000 in inner-city ward 115 alone. In that ward hosts with ten or more properties hold 40% of listings, and a single host controls 147 units.
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