As with all of South Africa's larger urban areas, rapid urbanisation has continued to place pressure on the eThekwini Metro. Centred around the city of Durban, on the country's east coast, South Africa's third largest city by population has reported that the number of households living in informal dwellings in the city has remained stubbornly high at 317,613.
These informal dwellings house over one third of eThekwini's 3.5 million residents. This backlog has persisted despite the fact that the municipality had, between 1994 and 2016, delivered 171,000 subsidised houses - an average 8,100 houses a year.
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