| Question | Answer | Description | Datasource and Evidence | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Has a department been assigned to take responsibility for backyarding? | Partial Evidence | A leading department needs to take responsibility for supporting backyarders. |
Draft Human Settlements Strategy 2021, IDP 2020/2021 review | Informal Settlements Department |
| What essential services are provided to backyard dwellings? | Partial Evidence | Every strategy should be clearly state, without ambiguity and uncertainty, what the city's strategy of improving backyard dwellings is. In this way, citizens can hold their governments to account. |
Draft Human Settlements Strategy 2021, IDP 2020/2021 review | Waste removal and area cleaning |
| What is the nature of the a recognition of the occurance of backyarding in municipal plans? | Partial Evidence | Municipalities should recognize backyarding as an important sector of rental supply. Is the municipality supportive or discouraging of the sector? |
Draft Human Settlements Strategy 2021, IDP 2020/2021 review | Backyarding is understood as an area of informality that must form part of the City’s urban management intervention to enable progressive development. |
| Does the city have a plan for addressing the needs of backyarders? | Partial Evidence | Every city with a significant proportion (more than 5% of total city population) of backyarders should have a strategy to improve the living conditions of people living in backyarder shacks articulated in their core municipal doucmentation. |
Draft Human Settlements Strategy 2021, IDP 2020/2021 review | Mainstreaming basic service delivery |
| Is there a clear indication that the municipality recognizes backyarding as a housing strategy in the city? | Strong Evidence | Even though the municpality might not have a backyarder support strategy, there should be evidence of this housing option in municipal plans. |
Draft Human Settlements Strategy 2021, IDP 2020/2021 review | Backyarding is understood as an area of informality. |
| % of municipal population | Strong Evidence | This figure represents the proportion of the city's population living in backyarder shacks. In other words, a bit less than one in ten people live in an informal settlement. |
Draft Human Settlements Strategy 2020 | 8% |
| # HH living in backyards | Strong Evidence | The number of households residing in backyarder shacks across the entire city. |
Draft Human Settlements Strategy 2020 | 108 000 |
| % of Provincial total | Partial Evidence | This figure indicates the % of backyard shacks in the Province located in the metro |
IDP 2017 - 2022 | 71% |
| # of people living in backyards | Strong Evidence | By multiplying the number of households with the city's average household size according to census data, we get a sense of how many people live in backyarder dwellings. |
Draft Human Settlements Strategy 2020 | 345 600 |
| Backyarder Growth Rate | Strong Evidence | The growth rate of households living in backyarder shacks is calculated by comparing Census 2011 data and reported figures in the IDP. |
Draft Human Settlements Strategy 2020 | 4% |