The Housing Department provides housing opportunities for city dwellers. These take the form of houses and flats that can be rented or bought, serviced land where people can build their own dwellings, and housing schemes. The department manages all the different kinds of housing owned by the City.

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• Dr Xuma's house to become a museum
  November 2006
• Two bad buildings targeted for expropriation
  October 2006
• Joburg on track to house its people
  October 2006
• Joburg Housing Company wins UN Habitat award
  September 2006
• Five buildings can be demolished for square
  September 2006
• Constitutional Court building wins award
  September 2006
• Upgraded backyard rooms for 20 townships
  September 2006
• Project to explore cheaper building options
  September 2006
• Bridge Precinct gives Braamfontein another lift
  August 2006
• Splice Riveira: home of discerning travellers
  August 2006
• Jozi on a mission to speed up housing
  June 2006
• Register for subsidy scheme, residents urged
  June 2006
• Inspirational interiors at Rooms on View
  May 2006
• More houses planned for Cosmo City
  May 2006
• Brickfields enters last leg of the race
  May 2006
• Housing delivery comes under the spotlight
  May 2006
• Alex RDP houses to get extra rooms
  April 2006
• City evicts people from New Claremont houses
  March 2006
• Residents get own homes in Braamfischerville
  March 2006
• Diepsloot families get new, safer houses
  February 2006
• Four families have place to call home
  December 2005
• Abused women now homeowners
  December 2005
• After 20 years, a home for Christmas
  December 2005
• Building a house a day
  November 2005
• A decade of housing Joburgers
  November 2005
• Mayor hands over Cosmo City keys
  November 2005
• First residents move into Cosmo City
  November 2005
• Demand for inner city living on rise
  October 2005
• More homes for city centre
  October 2005
• Evicted tenants move in next door
  September 2005
• Alex hostel work is on course
  September 2005
• Women build 15 houses
  August 2005
• Mbeki opens Brickfields housing
  August 2005
• Women build their own homes
  August 2005
• Evictions in inner city
  July 2005
• Housing plan looks at homeless blues
  July 2005
• First tenants move into Brickfields homes
  July 2005
• Big plans being laid to house the poor
  June 2005
• Cosmo City on track for first residents
  May 2005
• City chips in to build Letsema houses
  April 2005
• Johannesburg Housing Company counts its success
  April 2005
• City works to eradicate shacks
  March 2005
• EKhaya: Landlords clean up Hillbrow ghetto
  March 2005
• Proper housing for thousands by next year
  March 2005
• Talks continue over Jerusalem social housing
  February 23, 2005
• Rollout for Brickfields flats
  January 26, 2005
• Gauteng ready to turn hovels into houses
  January 24, 2005
• Kliptown housing project takes off
  January 19, 2005
• Letsema aims to build 1 000 houses
  October 21, 2004
• New era for city housing
  October 15, 2004
• Eldorado families get their title deeds
  September 29, 2004
• City identifies 189 informal settlements
  August 19, 2004
• Old Diepkloof shackland is now prime property
  August 5, 2004
• The race to house Diepsloot
  July 27, 2004
• Tangled transfers delay Soweto flat sales
  June 2, 2004
• Sentinels watch changes in Jozi's inner city
  May 10, 2004
• City hands over title deeds in Soweto
  April 15, 2004
• Council flats in Soweto go on sale
  March 25, 2004
• Turning Alex's hostels into homes
  December 9, 2003
• City unveils programme to tackle housing backlog
  August 14, 2003
• Spotlight on inner city housing market
  June 10, 2003
• Residents warned against crooked landlords
  May 26, 2003
• New homes for former hostel dwellers
  March 25, 2003
• More bad buildings sealed off
  February 26, 2003
• Tenants quit flats where 'owner needs police escort'
  February 10, 2003
• City evict squatters from Berea building
  February 10, 2003
• Hostel upgrade programme hits snag
  January 6, 2003