By Bridget Hilton-Barber
Mapping homelessness and the battle to bring people in from the mean streets of Jozi
The city’s first point-in-time count has revealed the scale and geography of homelessness and provided valuable information to address it.
The vision is clear: a Jozi where homelessness is rare, brief and doesn’t recur
There are thousands of people living homeless across the city, mainly men, mainly South African migrants from other parts of the country, and most have been on the streets for more than a year.
“Homelessness is a big, complex space, and we need to deal with the issues from within,” says lawyer and social justice activist Nyeleti Magadze, who recently took over Jozi My Jozi’s social workstream.
