Urbanisation Difficult to Manage, Says SACN

The South African Cities Network (SACN) has warned that urbanisation is becoming increasingly difficult to manage as municipalities restrict new informal settlements.

SACN senior researcher, Ivan Turok, says that populations around cities are becoming increasingly dense.

Turok maintains that, "The effect of the restriction is that you squeeze people into the existing settlements and then you have the backyard shack phenomenon. The effect has created some very difficult environments for people to live in."

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