COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE CREATION OF SUSTAINABLE

HUMAN SETTLEMENTS2004

“BREAKING NEW GROUND IN HOUSING DELIVERY”

PURPOSE

To indicate the shifts in housing policy embodied in the Comprehensive Plan for the Creation of Sustainable Human Settlement and review progress with implementation

OUTLINE

1. Ten year review of the housing programme (1994 to 2004) – achievements and challenges

2. Outcomes of an extensive consultation process

3. The Goals of the Comprehensive Plan

4. The various interventions contained in the Plan including progress made

The 2004 Review of ten years of the Housing Programme

Achievements 1994 to 2004:– Reformed the pre-1994 State housing

programme and the institutional architecture

– Delivered 1,6 million housing opportunities– Affected the lives of some 6 million people– Invested R 29,5 billion in the country– Culminated in a sophisticated delivery

system, addressing a range of needs

The 2004 Review of ten years of the Housing Programme

Unintended consequences and challenges:

– Peripheral development of low cost housing continued Apartheid settlement patterns

– Poor quality products and settlements lacking social and economic infrastructure

– Inadequate community participation– Secondary housing market under

developed in low cost areas

The 2004 Review of ten years of the Housing Programme

Unintended consequences and challenges:

– Corruption and mal-administration– Slowdown in delivery– Under spending of housing budgets– Limited and decreasing private sector

participation– Increasing backlog owing to new

household formation and migration pressures

– Growing informal settlements

Challenges in the housing environment 2004

• Population growth at 2,1%• 30% increase in the number of households• 1,8 million households inadequately housed• High urbanisation rate - 2,7% pa• Increasing structural unemployment and

informality • More households falling in subsidy income

band• Increasing social and geographical

disparities• Slow rate of delivery

Challenges in the housing environment 2004

• Policy changes (savings requirement) slowed down delivery

• Ineffective monitoring and oversight systems

• Uneven application of policies

• Dominance of the capital subsidy

• Delivery capacity constraints

Government priorities for 2004 to 2009

1. Rooting out corruption & maladministration

2. Fast tracking delivery3. Capacity building to deliver at scale4. Mitigating social crime5. Diversification of the housing

programme-densification of residential areas

Outcomes of a comprehensive consultation process

•Policy principles in the Housing White Paper,1994 continue to underpin the programme.•Need to shift to a demand driven approach.•Emphasis on quality of the product and the living environment.•Need to strengthen the contract with civil society.•Need to maximise the “spin offs” (multiplier effects) of the programme

The Comprehensive Plan

Goal: “Human settlements which are economically, socially and

environmentally sustainable”

(Plan approved by Cabinet 1 September 2004)

Towards defining sustainable human settlement

Sustainable human settlement are:

“Well governed settlements, in which growth and social development are in balance with the carrying capacity of the natural systems on which they depend for their existence and result in sustainable development, wealth creation, poverty alleviation and equity.”

The Comprehensive Plan, 2004

Focus areas:1. Creating quality living environments

2. Needs oriented approach

3. Building a non-racial, integrated society

4. Unblocking delivery constraints

5. Building capacity

6. Rooting out corruption and mal-administration

The interventions

1. CREATING QUALITY LIVING ENVIRONMENTS

The informal settlement upgrading programme – main area of focus for 2014 target

Programme to provide social and economic amenities in new residential developments

Alternative housing technologies – Eric Molobi hub

Environmentally efficient housing guide-lines Variation of the subsidy to cater for disabilities

and special development conditions

The interventions

2. A NEEDS ORIENTED APPROACH

Social Housing Programme – access to rental housing Rental housing programme – Community Residential

Programme (CRU) – affordable rental housing Enhanced People’s Housing Process (PHP) Promote densification and urban efficiency – Social housing

in demarcated urban zones – urban renewal Farm worker housing programme Diversify tenure options – rental programme Emphasis on community participation in planning and

implementation Emergency housing programme

The interventions

3. BUILDING AN INTEGRATED NON-RACIAL SOCIETY

Integrated residential development programme – range of income groups and facilities in single project – linked to inclusionary housing

Housing land policy – acquiring well located land for residential development through the housing grant

Housing chapters in municipal Integrated Development Plans (IDPs) inclusive consultation

Densification of residential areas – Social housing in demarcated urban zones aimed at urban renewal

The interventions4. UNBLOCKING DELIVERY CONSTRAINTS

Enhanced access to housing finance – Finance Linked Housing Subsidy Programme (FLISP).

Funding to facilitate project development and implementation (OPSCAPS).

Project implementation support teams (Eastern Cape initiative).

Streamlined and flexible progress payments system Social Contract with key stakeholders Municipal accreditation

The interventions5. CAPACITY BUILDING

Training and education – consumer education - a re ageng Mzansi and other community information programmes

Job creation – Expanded Public Works Programme, People’s Housing Process

Emerging contractor support (NURCHA and NHBRC) Housing Development Agency (HDA) to support

provinces and municipalities – land and implementation

Research Unit Human Settlement Policy Support Directorate

International cooperation Provincial housing policy development model

The interventions

6. ROOTING OUT CORRUPTION AND MAL- ADMINISTRATION

Investigative unit established and operational - linked to Special Investigation Unit (SIU)

Upgrading of the Housing Subsidy System and Housing Demand Database

National Monitoring and Evaluation Unit

Legislation

Social Housing Act, 2008 Amended Rental Housing Act,2008 Home Loan and Consumers Protection Measures Act -

Regulations, 2007 Review of provincial legislation and implementation of

national housing legislation Housing Development Agency Act, 2008

Amendments to Housing Act, 1997 Amendments to Prevention of Illegal Eviction and

Occupation of Land Act – Department of Land Affair – Task Team

Inclusionary Housing Bill Sectional Titles Bill – Transfer governance issues to NDOH

Research

Research agenda Beneficiary needs (backlog) and define

adequate housing Research unintended consequences of policy Research sustainability of housing interventions Build a research network Review the implementation of the

Comprehensive Plan Research into better alignment of decision-

making Research traditional housing enhancement –

Working with Dept Science and Technology

Communication

Comprehensive communication strategy

Comprehensive targeted consumer education programme

Work in progress

Inclusionary Housing Programme and legislation

Housing Demand Database and HSS upgrade on-going

Appropriate institutional architecture – roles responsibilities and mandates

Review of FLISP Ongoing Research Legislation

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