Yeoville City Improvement District Status Quo Report 2019

Prepared for the City Improvement District by the Development Impact Unit at TUHF March 2019 YEOVILLE: MARKET & TRENDS

• Mix of 3 – 4 storey walk-up apartment blocks & • 88% residential use older free hold res 1 houses (heritage applies) • 8 000households • Exceptionally busy & congested high street with • 65% households renting accommodation convenience retail, intense street trading & entertainment • 58% of total households are apartments • Popular education sector – minimum of 8 schools • 22% employment rate (public & private) • R6k average monthly household income • Current amenity – Yeoville Park, Library, Swimming Pool, Bellevue Park • High demand for accommodation but also increasing tenant churn due to crime • Tenant profile shifting from families to single adult males • High % vagrants & unemployed youth visible in the streets • High crime along the high street (Rockey / Ralleigh) related to drug trafficking, various gangs & armed robbery • Foreign - national hub & foodie attractions • Retail tenant churn high due to armed robbery • Increasing illegal land use and by-law infringement YEOVILLE: MARKET & TRENDS

City of policy & programmes • Implementing BRT along northern edge, i.e. Louis Botha • Falls within Louis Botha Transit Oriented Development Corridor (previously Corridors of Freedom) • Area identified for “Our City Our Block” Partnership Fund competition from the JDA – to receive R1m – R5m for the Indlulamithi project (TUHF is a supporting partner) • Yeoville is part of the Inner City so falls within the UDZ boundaries and the ICHIP Framework and qualifies for tax incentives from the City • Yeoville & Bellevue parks upgraded 2016 (City Parks) • Currently no CoJ programmes or budget spend in Yeoville Private sector interventions • Due to spiralling crime and resulting tenant churn, property owners have formed a CID (City Improvement District) in the area to address urban management, safety & security and cleaning • Currently Managed by Trafalgar and TUHF • The Yeoville Improvement District currently provides services to public areas surrounding member’s properties & is expanding to address safety & security, cleaning and “Indlulamithi Project launched at Sacred Heart” by-law enforcement along Rocky Raleigh Street. YEOVILLE: PROPERTY MARKET 2019

Current Property Market(average rentals and sales price): Y CID Intervention

Average house sale price = R1.4m

Average apartment sale price 1 Bed = R250 000 2 Bed = R380 000 3 Bed = 450 000 Rentals: Rooms = from R1 200 Bachelor = R2 600 Y CID Intervention 1 Bed = R4 800 2 Bed = R5 300

( Source: Prop 24, Pvt Prop, Gumtree, Portfolio Managers, notice wall, CID members) YEOVILLE CITY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT

• Started end 2016 • Currently 64 member buildings • Gained 4 new buildings, two of which are Res 1 houses (owner occupied) • Lost 1 building in 2018 (Uri Court was sold, new owner not responsive) • Indluplace temporarily withdrawn 2 buildings until portfolio is stable • Currently 2 potential new members. To review mid March • “Core members”: Indluplace, Vuka Jozi, Sirius Property, Trafalgar, Refresh Realty , Mafadi • To approach, Zulberg & Zahavi • AGM 27th March Current Inner City CIDs including Y CID conceptual outline • Services provided: cleaning, urban management, CoJ liaison & stakeholder engagement Right: Newest Y CID members – Residential 1 houses as well as apartment blocks YEOVILLE CITY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT SERVICES

Urban Management (Patrick Mpinga) • Attends all regional service delivery meetings regularly • Attend safety and security for Johannesburg sector • Report on o Streets o By-law infringement o Water o Power o Waste o Crime o Parks

Cleaning • Specifically outside members’ buildings & connecting streets (see adjacent map) • Collaboration with Pikitup Diagram above shows the routes • Remove 75 black bags of litter daily cleaned by the Y CID. • Cut sidewalk grass and remove weeds • Clean Jo Slovo drive in partnership with Berea CID • Clean outside Yeoville Boys to assist them & as a Right: Y CID removing weeds & marketing exercise cutting grass on sidewalks YEOVILLE CID COLLABORATION & PARTNERSHIPS

Building Manager’s Forum: The CID interacts with a broad range of building managers, collaborating around safety, service delivery & events such as A re Sebetseng. The CID also provides periodic training to member’s building managers. Active What’sApp group between the CID, building managers, members, YID stakeholders Neighbouring CIDs & CoJ – YID collaborates with neighbouring CIDs listed below around skills transfer, coordinated & shared service delivery efforts & intel around all matters relating to urban management & place marketing. • • Legae la Rona • Berea • Ellis Park / New • Ekhaya • Jo Slovo (share cleaning of Jo-Slovo Drive as well as removal of homeless & vagrants under the bridge) • The Wilds – St Johns, Rhodean, KES Safety & Security – as membership expands, the Y CID will delivery safety & security services. The YCID urban manager regularly attends sector meetings, collaborates with and has input into initiatives with: • SAPS • JMPD • Sector 1 & 2 Yeoville CPFs • CoJ’s Safety & Security Forum Broad representation: through TUHF, the YID is represented & actively participates on the following representative bodies: • CID Forum • JPOMA • TUHF • JICP • JDA Yeovlle Community – collaboration with all schools in the area, Y CID organizes & participates in all A re Sebetseng days in the neighbourhood, YCID is also represented as a partner on the Indlulamithi Safe Walking Routes JDA project. YEOVILLE CID COLLABORATION: NEIGHBOURING CIDS YEOVILLE CITY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT STAFF

• Contract with Fear Free Life for cleaning & cleaning site manager. • Trafalgar provides accommodation for Patrick in Northvista so that he is on site, and paid for his first three months’ salary. The CID now pays the Urban Manager’s salary • Cleaning equipment is shared between Berea & Y CID • Urban Manager is - Patrick Mpinga employed by the Yeoville City Improvement District. Patrick is resident on site • Urban manager is equipped with a bicycle • Trafalgar is currently paid a nominal fee for financial management by the CID • The Y CID Currently employs • 7 Street Ambassadors / Cleansers (two new staff were added in December 2018) • 1 Urban Manager resident on site • 1 Administrator & a Financial Manager • 2 Trustees (Trafalgar & TUHF)

Where YCID cleans And where we don’t we where And YEOVILLE CITY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT REPORTING

• Staff currently collect 75 black refuse bags / day, 6 STATUS days per week. Department Reported Resolved Outstanding Improvement % • Urban management report to CoJ departments : Joburg Roads Agency 84 67 16 80% • Pikitup Joburg Water 232 221 10 95% • City Parks JMPD 12 12 0 100% • Joburg Water Pikitup 4 4 0 100% • City Power City Parks 3 3 0 100% • JRA City Power 61 55 6 90% • Illegal Posters Illegal Posters 250 250 0 100% TOTAL 646 612 32 95% • As funds & memberships grows will include reporting on: • Transportation • Environmental health • Building control • Town planning & land use law enforcement 95% improvement in urban management since • Environmental management Yeoville City Improvement District inception! YEOVILLE CITY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT MARKETING

• Word of mouth through TUHF, Trafalgar and the Urban Manager. Also through the building managers & broader community. Patrick attends all relevant functions at the community hall / recreation centre and presents on the CID there to various community groups • TUHF & Trafalgar clients • Membership drives by TUHF & Trafalgar • Y CID flyers distributed regularly • Logo developed (funded by Trafalgar) • Site boards up on all member buildings • The CID arranges A Re Sebetseng days with the community, building managers & Pikitup • Dedicated page on the CID Forum website (needs upgrading) • Through all previous Forums & City Departments as documented in this report. YEOVILLE CITY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT TARGETS / WISH LIST

• 10% increase in membership in 2019. (Members to brainstorm marketing avenues, incentives etc) • Stabilise Rockey Raleigh o Street Traders o Crime o Business retention & attraction (retail) • Expand ‘safe routes’ to include Kenmere, Cavendish, Fortesque • Urban agriculture initiatives for job creation, food security & community development • Yeoville & Bellevue park adoption & programming – engage John Maluleke with YCID branding • Place marketing beyond logo etc – use investment / fiscal contribution / market demand as leverage with CoJ, collaborate with Dlala Nje & others. Use ‘foodie’ outlets, parks, schools & walking tours as leverage