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Delft residents are being evicted from their recently constructed houses, which they used their government subsidies to buy, and the Cape Town city council is now planning to auction these houses off. The houses were built as part of an RDP scheme, and only those earning less than R800 a month could qualify for the housing subsidy. Six months after the contractors built the houses, many of the rooves blew off in the wind.