ABSTRACT
The South African post-apartheid government is highly embarking on the past injustice on housing through exciting projects of urban renewal. These projects aimed to eradicate poverty and house thousands of hostel dwellers within townships. This paper provides a map layout to show the importance of planning for increasing delivery of houses using effectively the strategic spatial planning approaches. The research methodology was based on non-human contact, which used photographic evidence and map layout to display the difference in space used by the old and new Jabulani hostel housing as well as present infrastructure that supports service availability. It also included use of Case Study Design and documentation from the Community Residential Units, Housing Development Agency, and Spatial Planning in the City of Johannesburg. The results show how strategic spatial planning increases houses delivery, services and supports social development as well as improves resilience toward climate change.
