### Building Sustainable Human Settlements Through Local Government: A Pathway for Inclusive Housing Solutions ###

1. Human Settlement input- Local Government Week: Building Sustainable Human SettlementsDirector- General: Mr T Zulu1 AUGUST 2012

2. CONTENTS • Purpose • Vision and Mission • Problem statement • Areas for intervention • Policy considerations • Policy enhancements • Legislative & policy review • Governance, fraud and corruption • Institutional arrangements • Recommendations

3. PURPOSE • The Purpose of this presentation is to provide the Departmental view on work done to respond to Human Settlement challenges through local Government as points of delivery

4. A nation housed in Sustainable human settlements with access to socio – economic infrastructure”

5. MISSION “To establish & facilitate a sustainable process that provides equitable access to adequate housing for all within the context of affordability of housing, services, access to social amenities & economic opportunities”

6. Problem Statement • Acute shortage of basic services and housing for the poor: • Affordable access to housing for the working class, • Creation of holistic living environments in South Africa • Unprecedented migration into the urban centers and resultant urban growth. • Growth of informal settlements and associated social ill.

7. Western Cape Slum and informality

8. Problem Statement • Characterized by low family incomes, • Land speculation, and • Gaps in the implementation and regulatory policies, legislation and • Gaps in implementation frameworks - forced a substantial segment of our population to live in inadequate and precarious settlements • Below is a geographical location of these informal settlements;

9. Informal Settlements: NDHS, 2009 Limpopo Mpumalanga Gauteng North West KwaZulu-Natal Northern Cape Free State Eastern Cape Western Cape

10. Areas for intervention • Government will develop appropriate legislation and funding and implementation frameworks to develop and prevent the creation poorly located • Plan for the provision of basic services, sustainable livelihoods • Plan for alternative basic services • Provision of rental stock and communal development models

11. Areas for intervention • The allocation of resources: not optimally allocated and results in poor outputs and outcomes • Direct resources to meet human Settlements and national Developmental goals and objectives. • See the reality we are creating as our future:

12. CURRENT HOUSING PROJECTS 8072 projects

13. Policy considerations • Comprehensive consolidation of the policy developed and undertaken by Government be undertaken to ensure the Department of Human Settlements responds to the development needs and aspirations of the community. • This will take legislative amendment, policy rethink and enhancements

14. Policy enhancements • Green Paper on Human Settlements Development – Aimed at the developmental shift from the concept of housing to human settlements. • The drafting, adoption and enactment of a Human Settlements Development Act • Develop a framework for Monitoring and Oversight Planning, Funding and Implementation of National Development Priorities by Provinces and Municipalities

15. Policy enhancements • Enhance the national development mandates and priorities to ensure synergy of efforts and plans. • The Department proposes strengthening and tightening conditions for funding • Coordinate government efforts to fight poverty • Strengthen the co-ordination, Monitoring and evaluation regime

16. Policy enhancements • Enhance the Legislative Framework for a Consolidated Human Settlements Development Finance Institutions • Plan to investigation of a Human Settlements and Housing Bank so as to promote access to finance • We currently considering finding of a review into the Human Settlement Development Finance institutions

17. Policy enhancements • The institutions are the Rural Housing Loan Fund, NURCH and NHFC • They require a refocus to meet the enhanced mandate • Enhance the National Framework for the Management and Administration of Household and Beneficiary Administration- this is due to inaccurate data base • Development of policy for special and vulnerable groups. The Aged, Military veterans, children and orphans. Restoring dignity to our people

18. Tokzana Gauteng

19. Policy enhancements • Policy on gender mainstreaming: Aimed at addressing inequality and empowerment of women, this will be through Gender mainstreaming

20. Legislative and policy review • Review of the Funding and Subsidy Framework and Architecture to Improve Outcomes and Sustainability of Programmes and Projects • Current funding framework has created a measure of dependence by citizen, this in the context of a slow growing economy

21. Governance, Fraud and Corruption • Review of the Current Legislative and Regulatory Frameworks to Improve Governance and Eradicate Fraud, Corruption and Maladministration • Evident seepage and leakage of resources from within the current system as a result of fraud, corruption and maladministration. • Review current frameworks for effectiveness of the system • Review White Paper on Sanitation to focus on integrated planning, development and funding

22. Governance, Fraud and Corruption • Afford Sanitation status of a national development priority. • Review of policy, legislation, regulations as well as the roles, responsibilities, functions and obligations of various government and non-government role-players in the planning, funding, implementation and monitoring of the sanitation function.

23. Governance, Fraud and Corruption • Regulatory Impact Assessment of Policy and Legislation in the realization of Sustainable Human Settlements Development with particular reference to the poor and working class • Impact assessment to be mandatory against set targets and objectives

24. Institutional arrangements • To this end, and aimed at realizing SERVICE DELIVERY, the Turn-Around Strategy has been completed. • The strategy is delivery focused • Re-oriented the Department to follow the money • Designed the Department to assess, monitor products and adherence to: • Project planning and compliances • Project funding, fund mobilization, delivery and impact • Project delivery and synergy of services • Facilitation and management of Public-Private partnerships and, • Sustainability of settlements • Capacity building for delivery and management of settlements

25. Duplex Gauteng

26. Emerald Sky Eastern Cape

27. Social Housing Western Cape

28. Integrated Human Settlements COMMERCIAL & BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTAL SPACE SOCIAL AMENITIES HOUSES INTERNAL SERVICES BULK SERVICES LAND Human Settlements Dept. Secret 28

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32. Inescapable Reality • We provide tangible social and economic infrastructure • Provide resources for market or customer attraction and mobilization; • Provide bulk infrastructure that require management and maintenance, thus creating jobs; • Increase municipal tax and revenue base; • Create room to attract future investment.

33. CONCLUSION • Future housing needs be done with due consideration to active participation by communities in the planning and implementation of programmes and projects. • Special attention must be given to the development and promotion of the community led initiatives including Co-Operative Human Settlement and Housing Development Model • Current subsidy framework is not sustainable under the economic and fiscal regime

34. Thank You