Score: 34

All answers

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.

IDP/Budget 2018/19 - 2020/21 Human settlements
What essential services are provided to backyard dwellings? No 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.

IDP/Budget 2018/19 - 2020/21 No indication, used interchangabl\y with informal settlmenets
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?

IDP/Budget 2018/19 - 2020/21 No indication, used interchangabl\y with informal settlmenets
Does the city have a plan for addressing the needs of backyarders? No 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.

IDP/Budget 2018/19 - 2020/21 No indication, used interchangabl\y with informal settlmenets
Is there a clear indication that the municipality recognizes backyarding as a housing strategy in the city? No Evidence

Even though the municpality might not have a backyarder support strategy, there should be evidence of this housing option in municipal plans.

IDP/Budget 2018/19 - 2020/21 Informal settlement used interchangeably with backyarding, no clear indication
% of municipal population Partial 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.

Census 211 8%
# HH living in backyards Partial Evidence

The number of households residing in backyarder shacks across the entire city.

IDP/ BEPP 2018/19 review 200 973
% of Provincial total Partial Evidence

This figure indicates the % of backyard shacks in the Province located in the metro

IDP/Budget 2018/19 - 2020/21 26%
# of people living in backyards Partial 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.

# HH * household size (2016) 208 416
Backyarder Growth Rate Partial Evidence

The growth rate of households living in backyarder shacks is calculated by comparing Census 2011 data and reported figures in the IDP.

Census 211 5%

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Last modified   Tue Jun 01 2021 14:11:26 GMT+0000 (UTC)