Government aims to speed up delivery of housing for the poor, and have all persons accommodated in formally planned settlements by 2014, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said yesterday.
“To achieve this objective, government and its partners seek to increase the deliver rate of 300,000 homes a year. “Our target is the deliver of 500,000 housing units a years,” she told a social cluster media briefing in Parliament. “With the implementation of the Social Housing Act, we will be subsidizing the creation of various forms of rental accommodations, and thus contribute to our goal of the elimination of slums by 2014.”
This year would also see the introduction of the Housing Development Agency Bill. Establishing such an agency would enable government to “finally redress apartheid spatial planning”. A key instrument of the agency would be the “release of well-located land and serviced sites for human settlement programmes”, she said.
Citizen- Feb. 15, 2008
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