Johannesburg - The Department of Housing will work towards promoting social integration across class as well as between racial groups, said Gauteng Housing MEC Nomvula Mokonyane.
Tabling her R2.6 billion budget vote on Friday at the provincial legislature she said this will be done through the introduction of inclusionary policy.
The policy would require developers of the up market estates to set aside a certain percentage of their housing development to low-cost housing for low-income groups.
"The inclusionary policy is attempting among other things to address the apartheid spatial designs which created arid reserves for one group and plush suburbia for the other, this can be addressed through Mixed-Housing Development programme," said MEC Mokonyane.
Under the Mixed-Housing Development the department has identified flagship projects for each region in Gauteng where there is ongoing work which is at different phases and stages of construction.
"This is the type of commitment we have made and we would like to be judged on," she said.
"Other projects such as Thorn three View and Nelmapius are also on track with houses already constructed and ready for occupation.
"In Doornkop the housing development will consist of about 25 000 different housing units for various income groups," added Ms Mokonyane.
The housing products intended for the project, she said, included fully subsidised housing for the poorest of the poor, affordable housing for other low-middle income households and middle - to - high bonded housing stock.
In Mogale City, the department in partnership with Absa bank has identified a project in Kagiso/Azzadville where they will develop mixed housing with 6 800 different housing units.
Ms Mokonyane also announced that as part of her department's youth empowerment programme, ten youth companies within the housing and construction industry would be awarded contracts to build houses.
"The youth will be taken through the Empowerment Programme so that they become established developers in their own right.
"The department will be enrolling one hundred young people for training in construction, financial management and project management".
This, she explained would be done jointly with Gauteng Youth Commission and Umsobomvu with the National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) providing the technical assistance and training. (Read More...)
By Bongani Mlangeni; tel: (012) 314 2404
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