🌍 Africa 1d ago · Eyaaz

A nugget of hope in the inner city

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I tweeted something this week that stuck with a lot of people: “An abandoned, hijacked CBD building turned into a fully let student housing success story.”



And honestly, that sentence alone tells you everything you need to know about both the problem and the opportunity sitting in Johannesburg’s inner city.



If you’ve spent any time in the city centre, especially around Nugget Street, you’ll know this isn’t just one building but rather, it’s a pattern.



The Johannesburg CBD has hundreds o

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