Cape Town, Dec 22, 2025 (AFP) - Cape Town's housing crisis meets Airbnb boom

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2025-12-22

The laughter of children echoed against walls lined with dozens of mattresses in a large, dim room of an illegally occupied building in Cape Town's bustling and touristy city centre. A girl was having her hair braided on a stool near neatly placed plastic bags holding the belongings of people who had moved into the abandoned building from across the city. The property is in the heart of Cape Town, where rental prices are soaring as tourism is bo......

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