its all good and well for the Concourt to have a made that judgement, ostensibly to protect the rights of "tenants". But it certainly has not helped with the bigger picture.

Firstly they are not tenants, they are squatters. They are also not homeless, because they have occupied a building, outside of the law. But they will be homeless if evicted, in spite of the initial action of squatting being against the law. 

The owners have abandoned their buildings because it is more profitable to do so, or it incurs less spending. Whatever.

One has to feel some sympathy for the city, who has to take action, because the CBD needs to be reinvented, which needs investment, which requires at least some measure of gentrification, which requires evictions, which requires building or providing alternatives, etc etc.

And all the while, the National Governmnent, who is primarily to blame for creating the economic circumstances forcing the migration in the first place, is nowhere to be seen or heard.