Uproar over new rules at housing estate

[caption id="attachment_39638" align="alignright" width="405"] FROSTY RECEPTION: Janice Frost, left, and other residents are up in arms over new rules at the Walmer Links estate. Picture: BRIAN WITBOOI[/caption]

ABOUT 50 residents of Imizi Housing's Walmer Links social housing estate in Port Elizabeth staged a protest over the complex's visitor and parking policies late yesterday.

Residents are demanding the policies be changed, claiming these infringe on their right to privacy and to have visitors staying over.

The policies, which management says are aimed at preventing sub-letting, restrict the number of visitors tenants may have, and the number of days they may stay over.

Janice Frost, who heads the estate's tenants' committee, said the policies were introduced without consulting the tenants.

Imizi Housing chief executive Anthony Ngcezula said there were people who did not qualify for social housing who pretended they were visitors and then "stayed there forever". - Shaun Gillham