Swiss Federal Council Member Ignazio Cassis in Khayelitsha
On 11th January 2019 Prof. Hubert Klumpner welcomed Swiss Federal Council Member Ignazio Cassis on the project site of Empower Shack in Cape Town. Mr. Cassis toured the site and talked at length with Hubert about the project.
Swiss Federal Council member Ignazio Cassis visited the site of the Empower Shack Project in the township of Khayelitsha in South Africa, meeting Prof. Hubert Klumpner on site. Together with Swiss Ambassador, they spoke at length about the project’s potential to reshape housing policy in post-apartheid South Africa. The Empower Shack project aims to reshape the approach to informal settlement upgrading by offering an innovative and inclusive methodology for the fair distribution of public space, delivery of basic services, and an urbanization scheme that combines housing upgrades with a safer urban environment and new economic and social possibilities.
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