ACCORDING to Mayor, James Nxumalo, the eThekwini Municipality has had to hire private security guards to stop homeless people desperate for council houses, from invading these properties.
He said some were invading and destroying homes that had been allocated to others.
Two disabled community members were supposed to have received their houses in 2011, but the then newly-built homes were invaded by people who had taken advantage of their disabilities. New houses were built elsewhere for them, but one of them was damaged three times by local homeless people. Work on the houses had to then be carried out under 24-hour security.
Nxumalo said when people saw vacant and completed houses, they invaded them knowing very well that once they had moved in, the municipality would let them be.
