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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING VOTE: 29

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING VOTE: 29. PRESENTATION TO THE AD HOC COMMITTEE ON HOUSING 02 JUNE 2004 STRATEGIC PLAN & BUDGET 2004/05 TO 2006/07. Presentation Index. Aim, Vision and Mission of the Department Our Values Our Mandates Housing Legislation and Regulations Our Policy Framework

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING VOTE: 29

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  1. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING VOTE: 29 PRESENTATION TO THE AD HOC COMMITTEE ON HOUSING 02 JUNE 2004 STRATEGIC PLAN & BUDGET 2004/05 TO 2006/07

  2. Presentation Index • Aim, Vision and Mission of the Department • Our Values • Our Mandates • Housing Legislation and Regulations • Our Policy Framework • Strategic overview and policy shifts • Housing environment since 1994 white paper • Challenges facing Housing • Linkages to Government Policy Priorities • Strategic Policy: Shifts • Budget overview • Conclusion

  3. Department Of Housing • AIM:The aim of the Department of Housing is to determine, finance, promote, coordinate, communicate and monitor policy in respect of housing and human settlement. • Vision: A nation housed in sustainable human settlements • Mission: To establish and facilitate a sustainable process that provides equitable access to adequate housing within the context of affordability of housing, services, and access to amenities and economic opportunities

  4. Our Values • Our values, based on the constitution, are: • Human dignity,equality, advancement of human rights and freedom; • Non-racialism and non-sexism; • Supremacy of the constitution and the rule of law; • Accountability, responsiveness and openness.

  5. Our Mandate • SA CONSTITUTION • Section 26: Access to adequate housing a basic human right; Govt. to ensure environment conducive to the progressive realization of the right • Schedule 4: Housing is a concurrent national and provincial legislative function • Botshabelo Housing Accord (1994) Signed by all housing stakeholders • UN Habitat Agenda

  6. Our Policy Frameworks • Our overall policy framework is determined by the White Paper on a new Housing Policy and Strategy for South Africa, 1994

  7. Housing Legislation • Housing development programme continues to operate in the following legislative framework. • Housing Act 107 of 1997 • Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act No. 19 of 1998 • Housing Consumers Protection Measures Act 95 of 1998 • Rental Housing Act 50 of 1999 • Home Loan Mortgage Disclosure Act 63 of 2000

  8. Regulations and Guidelines • National Housing Code • Sets out National Housing Policy in detail including a user friendly guide • Contains the detail prescripts pertaining to the Housing Subsidy Scheme • National Norms And Standards For Permanent Residential Structures • Sets amount of the subsidy which may be used for infrastructure and top structure • Sets the minimum size of houses

  9. Regulations and Guidelines continued • Guidelines For Human Settlement Planning And Design (“Red Book”) • Planning – movement networks, transport, open space, subdivision layouts, design to reduce crime • Engineering services -stormwater, roads, water supply, sanitation, solid waste, energy • Guidelines For Environmentally Efficient Low Cost Housing • Energy and water efficient planning and design for low cost housing; and • Urban greening guidelines

  10. Regulations and Guidelines continued • Regulations under the Housing Consumers Protection Measures Act, 1998 • Regulations under the Home Loan and Mortgage Disclosure Act. 2000 will be finalized shortly

  11. Strategic Overview • Housing environment since 1994 white paper • More than 1,6m houses have been built or under construction and 2,4m subsidies approved benefiting more than 6,1m people • Early focus was on quantity, rather than quality housing to address housing needs and backlogs • Focus was on development of policies and legislative instruments • Introduction of the Housing subsidy scheme consisting of seven subsidy instruments • Special subsidy dispensation for the disabled • Procurement regime compliant to constitution

  12. Strategic Overview continued • Current challenges facing the housing programme   • Lack of private sector investment and resource constraints • Moving towards medium density housing as a priorityand integrated development • Creating higher quality housing and living environments • Reducing dependency and promoting a culture of savings • Need for interventions to deal with emergency situations resulting from natural disasters and other incidents - Grootboom case. • Growth in number and size of informal settlements • Building capacity of municipalities to implement and manage housing projects

  13. Strategic Overview continued • Current policy developments • Housing Finance - Contributions required from Government, the financial sector, and ultimate beneficiaries • Extension of the NHBRC Housing Warranty Scheme to all subsidy instruments • More emphasis on monitoring of policy impact, expenditure and delivery • More emphasis on oversight of housing institutions • Promoting of alternative and traditional/indigenous building technologies

  14. Strategic Policy Shifts • Policy emphasis • Increased focus on quality and environments • Medium density integrated housing programme • Increased emphasis on PHP; • Social and rental housing; • Informal settlements upgrading;

  15. Strategic Policy Shifts continued • Promotion of social responsibility, beneficiary participation and a culture of savings through: • Own contribution to access housing subsidies and the NHBRC warranty scheme • Increased emphasis on community participation and compacts • Improving access to housing credit: • Engagement in the Financial Services Charter proces; • Operationalization of Office of Disclosure

  16. Strategic Policy Shifts continued • Improving human settlement environments: • Programme to main stream environmentally efficient housing; • Dissemination of good practice; • Measures to cater for needs of special groups (eg. Differently-abled, people living with HIV, elderly,youth and children, farm worker) • Emergency housing programme

  17. Strategic Policy Shifts continued • Improving integration in service delivery: • Multi-year national and provincial housing development plans linked to Integrated Development Plans (IDPs) • Identification of and access to centrally located land for integrated medium density housing developments • Contributions to Urban Renewal and Integrated Rural Development Programmes • Addressing social amenities

  18. Strategic Policy Shifts continued • Improving service delivery: • New demand led procurement regime; • Capacity building programmes for stakeholders, including government and industry; • Framework for the accreditation of municipalities.

  19. Strategic Policy Shifts continued • Improving international cooperation on human settlement development: • Lead Ministry for UN Habitat (Habitat Agenda) – World Urban Forum, WSSD; • Cities Alliance – “cities without slums” initiative; • Supporting NEPAD regarding sustainable human settlement development in the African region is concerned; • Bi-lateral and multi-lateral cooperation programmes with donor countries.

  20. Government Priorities • Housing activities are focused in the following broad Government priorities areas • Urban renewal (informal settlements upgrading, Medium Density, Social Housing) • Integrated Sustainable Rural Development - through Rural Housing policy and provision of Rural housing credit through RHLF • Black Economic Empowerment – Creation of a cadre of Housing Entrepreneurs • Engendering a culture of saving • Fast tracking delivery; • Reducing social crime and improving security; • Capacity building of all stakeholders; • Dealing with corruption and maladministration – Appointment of Investigative Task team and establishment of increased and dedicated capacity to deal with corruption

  21. Priorities of incoming government • Accelerated Service delivery; • Capacity building; • Fraud, Corruption and Mal administration • Social crime prevention • Medium Density Housing

  22. Budget Overview

  23. Programme overview Programme 1: Administration

  24. Programme Strategic Overview • Programme 1: Administration • Purpose of this Programme is to provide strategic administrative and management support services to the Department • The key strategic objectives include the following • Provision of strategic communication services to all stakeholders; • Provision of Strategic Financial Management Services; • Provision of Corporate Services (such as HRM, Transport, Security and IT) to ensure corporate efficiently; • Provision of strategic support services for the Minister and Accounting Officer; • Implementation of the department's anti corruption initiative and investigative programme.

  25. Budget Overview

  26. Budget Overview continued • MTEF Allocation: • 2004/05 – R66 833 million (Growth at 34%); • 2005/06 – R76 737 million (Growth at 15%); and • 2006/07 – R84 896 million (Growth at 11%). • Increases in this programme are mainly attributable to: • Transfer of previous Communication programme into programme 1 • Strengthening of capacity of the office of Accounting Officer and provision of Security

  27. Programme Overview Programme 2: Policy Planning and Research

  28. Programme Strategic Overview • Programme 2: Policy Planning and Research • The purpose of this programme is to develop and manage sound national human settlement and housing policies and legislative frameworks, supported by a responsive research agenda. • In addition, the programme makes a contribution to the United Nations Habitat Foundation.

  29. Key Activities Over MTEF • Legislation : • Drafting of new legislation • Social Housing Bill • Amendments to current legislation • Rental Housing Amendment Bill • Housing Amendment Bill • Housing Consumers Protection Measures • Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and unlawful Occupation of Land Amendment Bill (PIE)

  30. Key Activities Over MTEF • Legislation : • Drafting of Regulations under HLAMDA, and Social Housing Act • Audit of all legislation impacting on housing • Outreach programme to provincial departments and local authorities for training and monitoring of implementation of legislation

  31. Key Activities Over MTEF continued • Policy Development : • Develop housing policy agenda for the next two decades • Medium Density policy • Social Housing policy and guidelines • Informal Settlement Upgrading Policy • Farm worker Housing Strategy • Housing land policy

  32. Key Activities Over MTEF continued • Other : • All Africa Housing Minister’s Conference • Research : • Research projects to support policy and programme development

  33. Budget overview

  34. Budget overview continued • MTEF allocation • 2004/05 – R22 139 million (Growth at 35%); • 2005/06 – R24 634 million (Growth at 11%); and • 2006/07 – R26 112 million (Growth at 6%). • 2004/05 and 2005/06 increase mainly due to the creation of capacity for the Research component and restructuring within the programme and for 2006/07 it is a inflation related increase. • Fairly stable over the MTEF period.

  35. Programme Overview Programme 3: Programme Management

  36. Programme Strategic Overview • Programme 3: Programme Management • The purpose of this programme is tomanage national housing and human settlement programmes, including managing the national housing subsidy scheme and phasing out the housing subsidy programmes of the previous government, the Human Settlement Redevelopment programme and the presidential Pilot Projects on Rental housing, building capacity in municipalities and provinces and developing professionalism in the housing sector.

  37. Key Activities Over MTEF • Manage of the implementation of the Human Settlement Redevelopment Programme and the Presidential Pilot Project on Rental Housing; • Manage of the programme for the phasing out of old business including the First Time Home Buyers Interest Subsidy Scheme; • Develop of guidelines and report for the extension of the Warranty cover to PHP and other subsidy instruments; • Produce report on outcome and lessons from implementation of the Presidential Pilot programme;

  38. Key Activities Over MTEF continued • Refocus the HSRP to provide for informal settlement upgrading and the provision social amenities; • Building capacity of housing stakeholders; • Develop an appropriate housing finance course for housing functionaries; • Develop and implement a framework for the accreditation of municipalities; • Develop guidelines for the improvement of sub standard houses; • Develop enhanced/revised guidelines for the Housing Subsidy Scheme to provide for and support the EPWP;

  39. Subprogramme Medium-term expenditure estimate R thousand 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 National Housing Subsidy 7,896 7,795 8,563 Scheme Capacity Building 22,471 26,469 27,907 Special Programmes Support 117,882 125,762 133,593 First Time Home Buyers Interest 4,228 411 – Subsidy Scheme Total 152,477 160,437 170,063 Change to baseline 26,018 7,960 9,626 Growth % 21% 5% 6% Budget overview

  40. Budget overview continued • MTEF allocation: • 2004/05 – R152 477 million (Growth at 21%); • 2005/06 – R160 437 million (Growth at 5%); and • 2006/07 – R133 593 million (Growth at 6%). • Mainly dominated by transfer payments: 90% • Major increase conditional grant Human Settlement Redevelopment Programme • From 2004/05 :R116m; 2005/06: R122m and 2006/07: R130m • New emphasis on informal settlement upgrading will require substantial additional funds over the coming years

  41. Provincial Allocation (HSRDP)

  42. Programme Overview Programme 4: Housing Sector Performance

  43. Programme Strategic Overview • Programme 4: Housing Sector Performance • The purpose of this programme is to monitor the performance and assess the impact of housing delivery, manage housing information; monitor and analyse the impact of government’s housing policy and programmes on the construction sector, the financial sector and the economy, and support housing institutions.

  44. Key Activities Over MTEF • Monitoring the implementation of housing policy & programmes • Monitoring the performance of Housing Support Institutions • assessment of impact of impact of policy and pragrammes • Monitor identified economic and financial variables as well as Construction Industry trends & reciprocal impacts • Maintenance of Housing information systems.

  45. Subprogramme Medium-term expenditure estimate R thousand 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 Policy and Programme 5,794 6,577 6,749 Monitoring Information Management 24,427 27,031 29,658 Industry Analysis and 4,781 5,681 5,450 Development Finance Housing Institutions monitoring 1,689 2,020 1,963 Contributions to Housing institutions 55,549 80,569 85,103 Total 92,240 121,878 128,923 Change to baseline 69 29,638 7,045 Growth % 0% 32% 6% Budget overview

  46. Budget overview continued • MTEF allocation • 2004/05 – R92 240 million; • 2005/06 – R121 878 million (Growth at 32%); and • 2006/07 – R128 923 million (Growth at 6%). • Average increase of 13% over the MTEF • Mainly as a result of increases in allocation to SERVCON in the 2005/06 financial year as a result of SERVCON concluding its work • 2006/07 increase is mainly inflation related

  47. Programme Overview Programme 5: Housing Equity

  48. Programme Strategic Overview • Programme 5: Housing Equity • Housing Equity aims to eradicate discrimination and unfair practices to do with access to housing finance, by implementing and administering the Home Loan and Mortgage Disclosure Act and its regulations

  49. Key Activities Over MTEF • Establishment of a fully functional Office • Receipt, analysis and interpretation of home loan data disclosed by financial institutions to identify any possible discriminatory lending patterns. • Utilize legislative framework to ensure achievement of fair lending practices • Take steps to achieve equitable access of home loans to all

  50. Key Activities Over MTEF continued • To support the achievement of an effective housing market • Management of relationship between the financial institutions and the Department • Monitor achievements of financial institutions relative to the Financial Sector Charter • Capacity of all stakeholders

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