| 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, BEPP, SDBIP 2020 | Not clear |
| 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. |
IDP, BEPP, SDBIP 2020 | Electrification, Waste removal and area cleaning, it is not clear where the focus of backyarders are situated |
| 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, BEPP, SDBIP 2020 | The municpality is yet to outline backyard in its plan, mention is made of needing to understand the situation bettter. |
| 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. |
IDP, BEPP, SDBIP 2020 | Great focus is placed on formalizing, aims to consider a variation in land use scheme allowances for ‘outbuildings’ on standard residential sites |
| Is there a clear indication that the municipality recognizes backyarding as a housing strategy in the city? | Partial Evidence | Even though the municpality might not have a backyarder support strategy, there should be evidence of this housing option in municipal plans. |
IDP, BEPP, SDBIP 2020 | Intion to update data regarding the housing backlog, the number of informal settlements that needs to be upgraded and formalised and also the information on backyards shacks count in line with the NUSP processes |
| % 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. |
IDP, BEPP, SDBIP 2020 | 4% |
| # HH living in backyards | Strong Evidence | The number of households residing in backyarder shacks across the entire city. |
IDP, BEPP, SDBIP 2020 | 48 975 |
| % of Provincial total | Strong Evidence | This figure indicates the % of backyard shacks in the Province located in the metro |
IDP, BEPP, SDBIP 2020 | 61% |
| # 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. |
IDP, BEPP, SDBIP 2020 | 125 337 |
| 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. |
IDP, BEPP, SDBIP 2020 | 3% |