National Department of Housing PRESENTATION TO Mayors’ Conference with National & Provincial Government 25 MAY 200

1. National Department of Housing PRESENTATION TO Mayors’ Conference with National & Provincial Government 25 MAY 2006 Positioning Local Government for Enhanced delivery of sustainable settlements

2. OUTLINE • Introduction • Appreciating the Mandate • Delivery of Sustainable Settlements • Response & Support to Local Government challenges

9. INTRODUCTION Issues raised/ challenges/ Feedback • Engagements with SALGA & Municipality • Presidential Imbizo feedback • Cost implications and capacity constraints for planning • Municipal Accreditation • Need for Funding predictability • Land limitations • Blocked/ uncompleted Projects

10. Outcomes of the National Municipal Housing Indaba Housing Minmec, SALGA and municipalities co-operatively agreed on: 1. Moratorium on sale of municipal-owned land 2. Definition of planning for human settlements 3. Accreditation of key/ priority municipalities 4. Improve the management of concurrency 5. Meet Housing needs of people in areas of stress

11. Role of Municipalities i.r.o human settlements • Constitutional Mandate: • Schedule 4, Part B: • Building regulations • Municipal Planning • Electricity/ Gas/ Water & Sanitation services • Schedule 5, Part B: • Local amenities • Municipal Roads/ Parks and recreation • Public places • Refuse removal, refuse dumps & solid waste disposal • Street lighting • The Housing Act - Section 9 …Municipal role & functions

12. New Housing Vision • GOAL: Accelerating housing delivery as a poverty alleviation strategy • Sub goals: • Job creation • Asset creation • Promoting ‘social cohesion’ • Single residential property market • Sustainable human settlements • Leveraging economic growth

13. Housing Development: Building sustainable settlements • ~R24 billion over MTEF (2005-2008) • A Housing Subsidy delivers: • Professional Services • Surveying/ town-planning/ Project management • Engineering designs/ conveyancing • Land & internal services (water & sanitation) • Top structure (i.e. a house) • Planned annual delivery: <200 000 houses

14. Programmes of support for Local Government

15. (1) Municipal Accreditation – Institutional Reform • Incremental delegation of Subsidy Housing functions to priority Municipalities • capacity enhancements (MTEF = R170m) • “Personnel”/ Systems/ Procedures/ Governance • Based on due (business) diligence • Sound inter-governmental agreements • Ensures greater local co-ordination/alignment

16. (2) Unblocking Projects – expedite service delivery • Blocked (unfinished) projects! • Reasons & causes of blockages vary… • Description of problem/ costs/ interventions • Completion of unblocking: 31 March 2008 • Responsibility of Provincial Housing Depts • Resolves local “governance & delivery stress” • Project Management support by Thubelisha

17. (3) Support Human Settlement Planning at Municipal Level: IDPs • Support Programme definition: • Sustainable settlements development planning • Demand-defined and supply-negotiated delivery • Transformation of intergovernmental planning and fiscal system • Support to municipalities - through provinces (R49m) to plan for human settlements

18. (4) “BNG Pilot Projects” • Address human settlements challenges in the identified areas – Pilot BNG Policy Examples: • Free State: Grassland (Mangaung) • Limpopo: Phomolong - Modimolle • GP: Winnie Mandela (CoJ) • W. Cape: N2 Gateway Project (Cape Town) • E. Cape: Soweto on Sea (NMMM) • N. Cape: Galeshewe (Sol Plaatjie) • Implementation of pilots for replication

19. (5) Capacity Building • Induction & Training of Councilors • Training of Municipal Officials • Housing Consumer Education & empowerment • Obligations for home ownership • Property maintenance and upkeep

20. Sustainable settlements are possible!

21. THANK YOU