PUBLIC HEARING on HOUSING CONDITIONAL GRANT 2006/07

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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
• 24 NOVEMBER 2006

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Contents

• Key Objectives
• Achievements
• Housing programmes
• Spending Trends and Performance
• Challenges
• Interventions

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Key Objectives

• 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

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Achievements

• 7 750 houses completed to date
• 5 blocks with 30 family and bachelor rental units
  completed to date
• 0800 Ntshebele Toll Free line to report fraud and
  provide consumer has been established to be
  operational during January 2007
• 100 youth have been trained in construction and
  are currently being engaged in construction at
  Bela-Bela
• Public Private Partnership affordable housing
  project with ANGLOPLAT at Northam has been
  launched in which 320 houses are being built for
  mining employees earning up to R7000.
• Partnership between the Department and Bricks
  supplier have received the Govan Mbeki Housing
  award
• Modimolle municipality has also been awarded the
  Govan Mbeki Housing recognition award for
  partnership with department by making serviced
  land available for housing development
• Retired technical building expert has been
  deployed by Development Bank of Southern Africa
  to the Department for a year to provide capacity
  in technical quality assurance and project
  management strategies
• 36 technically trained project managers will be
  deployed to all municipalities to increase
  project inspection capacity
• Payment of contracts has been reduced from a
  month to average of 8 days to support financial
  viability of emerging contractors
• 46 non-performing contractors have been
  terminated

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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

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Restructured Structure

• Old Structure

Senior Manager
Senior Manager
32 Project Managers already deployed to
municipalities
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District 2
District 1
District 5
District 3
District4
25 Municipalities 36 additional Project Managers
will be Deployed
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Housing Performance /Project Management

• Rural and Urban Housing
• Target 29 240
• 7 213 houses completed
• 8 762 wall plates
• 8 547 foundations

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Social Housing

• People Housing Process
• Annual Target3922
• 537 houses completed
• 522 wall plates
• 629 foundations

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• Institutional /Social Housing (Rental )
• Target 508
• 38 blocks with 228 units are roofed
• 22 blocks with 132 units have slabs
• 8 blocks with 24 units are at foundation level
• 5 blocks with 30 units are completed
• Each block has 6 or 4 units

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Housing Sector Performance and Municipal Support

• Polokwane Municipality is being accredited as
  level one
• Development of Multi-year Housing Development
  plan in progress
• Housing Customer care line for reporting fraud
  and consumer awareness has been established
• Limpopo Housing Development Bill has been tabled
  at Legislature
• Rental tribunal and housing panel appointment in
  progress

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Housing administration and property management

• Housing transfer (Extended Discount Benefit
  Scheme)
• Annual target4770
• 3718 legal tenants have been profiled and ready
  for lodgement with deed office
• 725 properties transferred

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Challenges

• Bricks supply capacity
• Municipal elections
• Loading of subsidy quantum
• Institutional capacity
• Contractors capacity to deliver at scale

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Interventions

• New appointment in line with new structure
• 8 Senior managers already appointed
• 7 Cuban engineers deployed to municipalities
• DBSA Technical Building expert already deployed
  to the department
• 36 technically trained project managers will be
  deployed to municpalties
• Project Management Unit has been established to
  assist with management of
• contractors
• Non performing contractors have been terminated
• Housing Subsidy Scheme has been enhanced
• Strategy to deal with blocked projects is in
  place and new big contractors have been profiled
• Sites audit of developable land is completed and
  Geotechnical engineers to commence with
  geotechnical investigation have been appointed
• Trilateral agreement facility has been created
  for material suppliers to assist emerging
  contractors

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• THANK YOU