Score: 19

All answers

Question Answer Description Datasource and Evidence Comment
Has a department been assigned to take responsibility for backyarding? No Evidence

A leading department needs to take responsibility for supporting backyarders.

IDP 2021-2026 (23/24 review), BEPP 2023/24
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 2021-2026 (23/24 review), BEPP 2023/24
What is the nature of the a recognition of the occurance of backyarding in municipal plans? No Evidence

Municipalities should recognize backyarding as an important sector of rental supply. Is the municipality supportive or discouraging of the sector?

Previous data collection
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.

Previous data collection
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.

Previous data collection
% 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.

Previous data collection
# HH living in backyards Partial Evidence

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

Previous data collection
% of Provincial total Partial Evidence

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

Previous data collection
# 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.

Previous data collection
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.

Previous data collection

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Reviewer   Isandla Institute
Submitters   Isandla Institute
Last modified   Tue Oct 10 2023 10:02:50 GMT+0000 (UTC)