HDA's Objectives and Assistance to the Provinces: Challenges and Service Delivery

1. The HDA’s OBJECTIVES, ASSISTANCE TO THE PROVINCES, CHALLENGES AND SERVICE DELIVERY 28 JUNE 2011

2. What is the HDA? The HDA is a national public development agency established by an Act of Parliament (Act 23 of 2008). The HDA promotes sustainable communities by making well-located land and buildings available for the development of housing and human settlements. As an organ of state, the HDA is accountable through its Board to the Minister of Human Settlements.

3. Objectives of the HDA The HDA was established to address land acquisition and assembly so as to accelerate housing delivery and human settlement development. The two main objectives of the Agency are to: • Identify, acquire, hold, develop and release well-located land and buildings for human settlements • Provide project management support and housing development services

4. The HDA’s Mandate • The HDA’s written mandate as per section 25 of the Act has been signed by the Minister of Human Settlements. • The HDA has linked its deliverables/ output to each function as per the Act. • The HDA has ensured that its strategic plan is aligned with Outcome 8 and set targets towards ensuring the ‘creation of sustainable human settlements and improved quality of household life’.

5. Visionary goals and strategic objectives

6. How does the HDA work? • The service provided by the HDA is negotiated with Provinces and Municipalities and expressed through an Implementation Protocol. • The protocols are structured between the HDA and the respective organs of state with a view to ensuring that there is collaboration and alignment for housing development services. • Implementation Protocols outline the: • framework of cooperation, • areas of operational activity (land assembly & project management) • institutional and funding arrangements. • The HDA collaborates with provinces and municipalities, as well as supplementing their capacity

7. HDA programmes • Intergovernmental Relations & Strategy Alignment • Secure key IGR relationships between the different spheres of government to facilitate and accelerate the development of human settlements, as well as fostering partnerships with identified sector stakeholders, concluding agreements that allow HDA to function effectively. • Key targets: • Develop and adopt an IGR policy framework • Outreach initiatives to improve appreciation of HDA functions & services • Collaboration agreements negotiated & concluded with key stakeholders • Facilitate alignment of strategies and operation with organs of state • Facilitate HDA’s participation key fiscal and planning process

8. Delivery Agreement for output 3 • Signed Implementation Protocols in place: • Limpopo • Free State • Northern Cape • North West (pending signature) • KZN (pending signature) • Western Cape and Eastern Cape (in negotiation) • 9 Municipalities (Land Assembly and projects support services) • Council for Geo-Science (agreed on areas of collaboration) • SHRA/ NHFC/ NURCHA/ NHBRC: preliminary negotiation opened

9. HDA Programmes • Land Acquisitions and Management • Coordinates the identification of suitable land and landed property and facilitate its acquisition and/or release for human settlements development. Manages acquired property as well as undertake spatial analysis and provide geo-spatial services • Key targets: • 36 000 hectares of public land identified for acquisition • 6 000 hectares of private land identified for development • 220 development feasibility assessments • 6 000 hectares of public land released for human settlements purposes • 9 250 hectares of urban public land released to HDA

10. Outcome 8: Release of well located public land for low income and affordable housing • Release of 6 250 hectares of well-located public land for low-income and affordable housing • The signed Delivery Agreement establishes: • Criteria for identification and development of well-located and suitable land • Enhanced Framework for the Release of State Land which proposes a seamless and efficient procedure for the release of state-owned land for human settlements development • Joint Coordinating Committee comprising NDoHS/ DPW/ DRD&LR/ DPE and HDA

11. Land Identification and Release • 33 000 hectares of state land have been identified and formally requested for release from the custodian departments during the 2010 financial year • 16 064 hectares of state land are at various release and disposal stages for human settlements development to the Agency andmunicipalities • 12 138.2760 hectares of state land have been identified for human settlements development, thus far in the 2011 financial year

12. Public Land Identification: SOE Land • The HDA has subjected 6 692 Transnet non-core properties to land identification criteria to test suitability • 1 591 properties have been identified as suitable for human settlements development • Transnet has been formally approached by the HDA to release 309 properties measuring approximately 812.6267 hectares

13. Public Land Release: Transnet / Servcon Portfolio • The HDA has acquired two Johannesburg inner-city buildings for social housing development (2 476 m2 and 1 488 m2) • The remainder of the Servcon Property Portfolio measuring approximately 175.3330 hectares will also (subject to National Treasury approval for the discounted purchase price) be transferred to the HDA

14. Land secured

15. HDA programmes • Projects and Programmes • Manages projects and programmes aimed at promoting sustainable human settlement development through various capacity and project support services to sector stakeholders. • Key targets: • Provide capacity support in 9 provinces • Provide capacity support in 9 provinces/municipalities to achieve informal settlement upgrading targets • Define blocked project assistance and support framework, and emergency housing and support framework • Provide technical support to 20 targeted projects • Approval of PHDA framework and regulations

17. Zanemvula: Service delivery • 9 974 top structures planned and 3 081completed to date • 12 263 serviced sites planned and 6 420 completed to date • Multi-purpose community centre complete 10 June 2011 N2 Gateway: Service delivery • 11,181 top structures planned and 8,646 completed to date • 1,521 TRAs planned and 444 completed to date

18. Challenges encountered • Limited planning and coordination with respect to physical and social infrastructure • Misalignment between fiscal arrangements and the mandate of the Agency. • A lack of alignment between provincial human settlements planning and municipalities. This results in human settlements implementation occurring in an uncoordinated and inefficient manner. • In some cases, sector role players view the HDA as a private sector service provider, • Conclusion of IGR Implementation Protocols with Provinces and Municipalities

19. Moving beneficiaries into houses in Delft • Erecting TRAs • Completed houses Delft 7-9 • Building Joe Slovo P&P: N2 Gateway

20. Plans for Soweto-on-Sea multi-purpose community centre • Building houses in Chatty • Rectification of houses at Soweto-on-Sea • Party for pensioners • Building multi-purpose community centre P&P: Zanemvula

21. P&P: Cornubia • The land • The location • Development plans • Constructing the bridge • A vision of the future

22. The HDA undertakes spatial analysis, to inform land identification • Acquisitions, planning and programming are done in collaboration with PDoHS and municipalities LAM: Identifying land and spatial analysis

23. LAM: Land assembly (identification and feasibility)

24. Looking at land with municipal official Signing IP with Eastern Cape IGR&SA: Intergovernmental relations Meeting with Free State after signing IP Introducing the HDA to municipalities Signing IP with Western Cape Introducing the HDA to municipalities

25. The HDA has facilitated the following workshops with practitioners: • Developing appropriate risk management and control systems and procedures in housing project planning and implementation workshop • Neighbourhood development workshop • Formalisation of informal settlements workshops • Towards a conceptual framework for emergency housing workshop • HDA/SALGA Municipal Land Assembly Support • Learning visits by eThekwini officials and councillors to the N2 Gateway SALGA workshop Practitioners’ thematic workshops eThekwini visit to N2 Gateway Informal settlement workshop

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