{"id":195892,"date":"2021-07-22T18:35:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T16:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/human-settlements-mecs-commit-to-deliver-on-housing-target\/"},"modified":"2021-07-22T18:35:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T16:35:16","slug":"human-settlements-mecs-commit-to-deliver-on-housing-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/human-settlements-mecs-commit-to-deliver-on-housing-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Settlements MECs commit to deliver on housing target"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Although business and the country may be battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, Provincial Human Settlements MECs have made an undertaking to accelerate housing delivery over the next coming months.<\/p>\n

The MEC made the commitment during a meeting between Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, Water and Sanitation Deputy Minister David Mahlobo, and all MECs (MINMEC).<\/p>\n

The MINMEC said the acceleration of housing delivery will ensure the department delivers 100 000 housing opportunities by March 2022.<\/p>\n

R3.3bn spent on housing delivery<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Human Settlements Department has managed to deliver close to 15 000 housing opportunities, with R3.3 billion spent during the first quarter of the current financial year.<\/p>\n

In its preliminary expenditure report for the first quarter (April to June 2021), the department revealed that R3.3 billion has been spent against the R4.2 billion transferred to the provinces.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis amount has made it possible for thousands of beneficiaries to have decent shelter over their heads,\u201d Sisulu said.<\/p>\n

Sisulu urged provinces to deliver on their set targets, spend their budget allocations to provide affordable housing opportunities and \u201cavoid a situation in which some of their resources are reallocated to better performing provinces\u201d.<\/p>\n

Delivering her Budget Vote Speech in May 2021, the Minister announced that over R13 billion had been allocated to the provinces to deliver much-needed housing opportunities.<\/p>\n

Other issues discussed at the MINMEC meeting included a report in relation to the provinces paying contractors within 30 days, progress made in the implementation of the 40% set aside for women and youth contractors, and partnership with the private developers to accelerate housing delivery.<\/p>\n

The MINMEC also discussed the possible adjustment of the quantum, as it has not been escalated since 2018.<\/p>\n

The meeting further noted significant changes in construction and labour costs, which have affected the sector. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although business and the country may be battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, Provincial Human Settlements MECs have made an undertaking to accelerate housing delivery over the next coming months. The MEC made the commitment during a meeting between Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, Water and Sanitation Deputy Minister David Mahlobo, and all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-195892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/human-settlements-mecs-commit-to-deliver-on-housing-target.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}