The concept of apartheid brings into focus the wide discrepancies in housing, infrastructure, and public services that separate Jewish and Palestinian citizens, often as a product of government policy.
Palestinian citizens of Israel are often concentrated in underdeveloped towns and neighborhoods with poor infrastructure and limited economic opportunities compared to predominantly Jewish areas.
[6] In the occupied West Bank, this is even more profound, where Palestinians are severely restricted in their movements with checkpoints and the separation barrier, which impede access to basic services such as healthcare and education.
[13] National, provincial, and Municipal governments have rolled out various initiatives over the years which have been aimed at reversing the historic negative consequences of the Group Areas Act, and its racial segregation in terms of the country's suburbs.
[14][15][16] This kind of zoning approval and funding support means that those who could not otherwise afford to live near to where they work (which, in the case of Cape Town, is likely somewhere in the City Bowl, where many companies are headquartered), can now have the opportunity to do so.