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    Young Nigerians Turn to Shared Living as Lagos Faces a Housing Crisis
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    10 July 2025

    Young Nigerians Turn to Shared Living as Lagos Faces a Housing Crisis

    With rent prices soaring, many Lagosians are cutting costs by choosing co-living spaces and sharing the financial burden.

    How a Young Ghanaian Found His First Rental Apartment in Accra
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    08 July 2025

    How a Young Ghanaian Found His First Rental Apartment in Accra

    Adinan Yussif’s approach to finding his starter place was unconventional. It also helped him beat out the expensive rental market in Accra, Ghana.

    Inside Cape Town's Growing Housing Crisis
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    03 July 2025

    Inside Cape Town's Growing Housing Crisis

    Decades after apartheid ended, many Capetonians are struggling to find affordable housing, and some are occupying abandoned buildings, as they fight to get their voices heard.

    This Place Called Home: What Happens When Cities Price Out Their Own
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    11 June 2025

    This Place Called Home: What Happens When Cities Price Out Their Own

    Across Africa, young people can no longer afford the cities and neighborhoods they call home. OkayAfrica has developed a series exploring the housing crisis transforming African cities and communities, and what happens when basic shelter becomes a luxury commodity.

    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (C) speaks to journalists at the scene where more than 70 people were killed in a building fire in Johannesburg on August 31, 2023. A fire that tore through a five-storey building taken over for illegal housing killed 74 people including 12 children in central Johannesburg overnight, South African authorities said August 31, 2023.
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    31 August 2023

    Tragedy Strikes Johannesburg as Fire Claims Lives

    Tragic fire engulfs Johannesburg's informal housing, 74 lives lost, 50 injured amid calls for urgent action in South Africa's inner city.

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