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PUBLIC HEARING ON HOUSING CONDITIONAL GRANT 2006/07. Presented by: M Nkoana-Mashabane The Honourable MEC of Local Government and Housing :Limpopo Province 23 MAY 2007. CONTENTS. Report on Housing Conditional Grant Budget Expenditure 2006/7 Key objectives Housing programmes
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PUBLIC HEARING ONHOUSING CONDITIONAL GRANT 2006/07 Presented by: M Nkoana-Mashabane The Honourable MEC of Local Government and Housing :Limpopo Province 23 MAY 2007
CONTENTS Report on Housing Conditional Grant Budget Expenditure 2006/7 • Key objectives • Housing programmes • Achievements • Challenges • Interventions • Plans for 2007/8 Conclusion
The Department identified the following as its key objectives: To provide regulatory framework for housing delivery To provide capacity and support to municipalities with regard to housing delivery in line with the Housing Act To create integrated and functional settlements KEY OBJECTIVES
Housing Development The Housing Development comprises the following programmes: • Housing Performance/project management • Social Housing • Housing administration and property management • Housing Sector Performance and municipal support
ACHIEVEMENTS • 12366 houses completed during the financial year 2006/7 • Housing Consumer Ntshebele Toll free line has been established ,a total of 10 000 calls have been received in and outside Limpopo Province • A total of 66 technical trained project managers have been deployed to all municipalities to improve on housing project monitoring • Payment of contracts have been reduced from a month to average of 8 days to support financial viability of emerging contractors • Three pieces of well located land have been acquired to restructure spatial development and to promote integration of communities • Memorandum of Understanding have been signed with Northam Anglo-Platinum Mine in which 300 hundreds houses are being constructed • Multi-Year Settlement Plan to identify growth nodes and to guide intervention into space have been completed • Limpopo Housing Act 2006 has been passed to pre-empt sale of subsidized houses for 8 years
KEY STRATEGIC CHALLENGES • Delivery capacity constraints: • Limited Capacity of Contractors to deliver at large scale. • Material supply constraints (bricks Supply do not match the demand ) • Planning Coordination. • Municipal infrastructure and Sectoral Alignment
Land Constraints • Limitations in acquiring suitably located land in prime areas. • Migration patterns Increased Rate of urbanisation • Incomplete (Blocked) projects • Verification/audit and funding mobilization
STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS • Contracting strategies – mix of highly capacitated and emerging contractors • Forward Planning • Unblocking Blocked/incomplete Projects • Development of Housing Chapter in municipal IDPs • Partnering – Public Private Partnerships • Acquisition of well located land for development of integrated sustainable communities
2007/08 Actual Plans • Per Sub-Programme • 2007/8 Priorities • SUB-PROGRAM 1 & 2 : HOUSING SUBSIDY PERFORMANCE/PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL HOUSING
SUB-PROGRAM 3 : HOUSING ADMIN AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SUB-PROGRAM 4 : HOUSING SECTOR PERFORMANCE AND MUNICIPAL SUPPORT
Conclusion THANK YOU