Briefing to the Portfolio

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Briefing to the Portfolio Committee on Housing


JUNE 2003
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Vision

• Facilitate the provision of habitable
  environments for communities with adequate
  infrastructure through the delivery of
  sustainable affordable and safe housing
  opportunities.

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Mission

• To promote the delivery of Housing through the
  following strategic programmes identified in the
  sustainable Housing Strategy of the COJ
• 1. Water and Sanitation (Informal Settlements
  upgrades)
  
• 2. Peoples Housing Process and RDP
• 3. Conversion of Hostels (Hostel
  Redevelopment)
• 4. Management of Council owned stock
• 5. Sales and Transfers
• Inner City (Institutional Housing)
• Special Projects (e.g. Baralink, Cosmo, Kliptown,
  Alex)
• Continual Land and Building Identification for
  Housing Opportunities

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Introduction

• Johannesburgs Population
• 791 000 Households
• 33 Households housed in less adequate
  accommodation
• 170 115 Living in Settlements
• 108 000 Living in backyard shacks
• Most Important Concerns articulated by
  residents of Johannesburg
• Jobs
• Housing
• Housing Backlog -120 000
• Estimated Family Formation by 2010
• 101 940- 144 751 Households earning R3 500

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CHALLENGES FACED BY THE CITY INFORMED BY THE
SUSTAINABLE HOUSING STRATEGY
 

• ( I ) Backyard shacks
• 108 000 backyard shacks unregulated
• ( II ) Inner City Housing
• 6 947 units upgrading
• ( III ) Council Hostels
• 27 hostels 50 will require further upgrading
• ( IV ) Street people
• 4 500 people are without any form of shelter
• ( V ) Informal settlements
• 89 informal settlements 170 000 households
• ( VI ) Land invasions
• Invasions have been stabilised and contained
• ( VII ) Council owned housing stock
• 145 073 housing units (60) are in a bad state

 
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Implementation Strategy

• 1. Water and Sanitation (Informal Settlements
  Upgrades)
• 47 Formal Settlements (122 485 Households) to be
  upgraded (Registration, numbering, street naming,
  fencing, manage and contained)
• 27 Informal settlements ( 33,625 Households)
  under the relocation programme to be effected
• 15 Portions of vacant land from where all
  Informal Settlements (13
  887households) have been relocated would be
  secured at all times
• Enter into Service Delivery Plan with Regions to
  manage and contain informal Settlements.
• Encourage and engage communities in the
  relocation process
• Enter into a Service level agreement between JHB
  Roads, Water and City Power for the purposes of
  fast tracking the upgrading of Informal
  Settlements and to strengthen the capacity of
  Housing Department to deliver

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Implementation Strategy (continues)

• 2. Peoples Housing Process (PHP) and RDP
• Create 10 000 housing units through the Peoples
  Housing Process
• Four Housing Support Centres have been
  established in Doornkop, Orange Farm, Diepsloot
  and Ivory Park.
• Development of 6 000 RDP units in Braam
  Fisherville, Vlakfontein West
• Enter into service level agreement with JHB
  Social Housing Company and Golden Triangle
  Development Company for the purposes of fast
  tracking the implementation of PHP.
• Ensure meaningful participation by Housing
  Central and Regions on RDP housing development in
  an effort to address all bulk and infrasturural
  services developments which are Provincially
  driven.
• Introduce saving schemes through National Urban
  Reconstruction Housing Agency (NURCHA) to raise
  R2479 required from qualifying beneficiaries for
  them to access a full subsidy of R20 300

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Implementation Strategy (continues)

• 3. Conversion (Redevelop) of Public and Council
  owned Hostels
• Redevelopment of 13 Hostels creating 10 000
  family units
• Anthea/Langlaagte 250 Selby Hostel/ Faraday
  355
• Lifateng Soweto 650 Van Beek Hostel 350
• Mapetla Soweto 1,000 City Deep
  Hostel 395
• Meadowlands 750 Diepkloof
  1,800
• Madala (M1) 750 Dube Hostel- Soweto 1,900
• Nobuhle (M2) 800 Orlando West- Woman's 250
• Helen Joseph 750
• Enter into a Service level agreement with JHB
  Social Housing Company to redevelop/convert and
  manage hostels in an effort to fast track
  implementation and to again strengthen the
  capacity of Housing Department to deliver

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Implementation Strategy (continues)

• 4. Management of Council Owned Stock
• Sign of Service Delivery plan with Regions to
  ensure efficient and effective management of
  Council owned housing properties
• Enter into a Service level agreement with JOSCHO
  to eventually take over the management of Council
  owned stock from Regions
• Implement Market Related rentals on all Council
  Housing Stock through a gradual process of
  phasing in market related rentals over a three
  year period
• Reguralise illegal tenants in line with Council
  resolution with cut- off date for regularization
  being end of September 2002

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Implementation Strategy (continues)

• 5. Sales and Transfers
• Create 71,759 housing opportunities through
  selling and transferring council owned housing
  properties and title Deeds in lesser formal
  Townships though the following Directives
• 24,000 first directive housing ( Former black
  townships)
• 4,000 second directive housing (Former own
  affairs housing
• 43,759 third directive (Lesser formal townships)
  
• Fast track the transfer of problematic second
  directive housing through Africon (appointed
  consultants ) in an effort to strengthen Housing
  Department to deliver
• Fast track the process of registration and
  verification of legal tenants in all housing
  units delivered through Price Waterhouse Coopers
  (appointed Consultants)

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Implementation Strategy (continues)

• 6.Social Housing/ Inner City Special Projects
• Deliver 41,900 high rise/ density housing
  opportunities in the following projects-
• Cosmo City 8,500 Kliptown Project
  4,400
• Baralink 2,000 Vlakfontein West
  6,000
• Inner City Better Buildings 5,000
  Alexandra 14,000
• Enter into a service level agreement with JOSCHO
  to develop and manage most of the above projects
  in an effort to strengthen the Housing department
  to deliver.
• Make use of the capacity of other roleplayers
  like Kopano, Housing Agency Development (HAD),
  Basil Read,JHB Housing Company, Cope Housing
  Assosiation, Constedienste, and others to
  deliver special projects, invest,refurbish and
  manage some of the Inner City Better Buildings in
  line with Council resolution (Suspensive sales
  conditions)
• Make use of the Services of Propcom to deal with
  land issues such as long term leases and land
  transfers.
• Enter into Service level agreement with
  Development Planning and Facilitation to provide
  technical support on housing projects and to
  assist with project management services

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Conclusion

• It is our firm believe that the
  sustainable housing strategys identified housing
  delivery programmes will enable the Department
  to create 262 144 housing opportunities.
  Identify developable land and buildings to
  address the backyard shacks and hostels backlog.
  Address the challenge relating to street people
  thus eradicating the housing backlog by 2006.
• The involvement of council owned entities
  like JHB Water, Roads, City Power, JHB Social
  Housing Company, Council Departments like
  Development Planning and Facilitation and Gauteng
  Housing Department through the services of
  Regional professional teams and additional
  funding provided to appoint 5 additional project
  managers will surely make the task of the
  Housing Department easier in housing the low
  income communities of the City of Johannesburg.