Question NW2501 to the Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation

Reply:

(a) In terms of our Constitutional delineation of responsibilities, municipalities are responsible for housing lists. The National Department of Human Settlements sets norms and standards, and monitor their implementation. Having realised the lack of capacity in certain municipalities, we decided to institute a National Housing Needs Register on which household can record their housing needs.

This National Housing Needs Register is different from a waiting list as it is used by provinces to select household who can be approached with an offer to apply for specific housing opportunities as these are created within Greenfield projects. Provinces and municipalities are encouraged to make use of the National Housing Needs Register system as it provides for a fair, transparent and just process of selection of prospective subsidy beneficiaries and allows for regional specific preferential selection criteria.

The System is linked to National Guidelines for the Allocation of Housing Opportunities created through the National Housing Programmes. The total number of households that have registered their need for adequate shelter as on 23 October 2020 is 2,537,968. The Honourable Member should note that the Western Cape does not utilize the National Housing Needs Register

(b) Below breakdown of number of households that have registered their need for adequate shelter per province as on 23 October 2020 on the National Housing Needs Register:

(c) The number of houses build by provinces depends on the HSDG budget allocation to each province every financial year. In the 2020/21 financial year the Department has planned to deliver the number of housing units and serviced as indicated below:

	2020/21	2021/22	2022/23
Province	Total No of projects	Serviced sites	Housing Units	CRU (units)	FLISP	Planned sites	Planned units	Planned sites	Planned units
Eastern Cape	465	3 727	7 025	0	200	5 056	7 805	5 413	8 172
Free State	155	3 778	2 431	100	100	1 000	5 858	1 000	5 107
Gauteng	184	13 851	9 563	0	100	9 977	16 011	10 177	16 311
KwaZulu Natal	346	5 208	11 020	400	252	2 846	13 176	2 458	14 877
Limpopo	163	2 839	5 214	150	25	2 500	5 664	2 500	2 896
Mpumalanga	153	3 426	4 369	128	100	4 400	4 436	5 000	3 793
Northern Cape	47	2 329	376	190	20	4 352	909	2 470	103
North West	351	3 692	6 381	0	40	5 198	6 156	7 663	5 776
Western Cape	147	5 697	7 843	0	598	10 736	11 450	6 323	10 241
Nat Total	2011	44 547	54 222	968	1 435	46 065	71 465	43 004	67 276

 

Further to the above, the Department will through the Social Housing Regulatory Authority (SHRA) deliver the following in the 2020/21 MTEF:

	2020/21	2021/22	2022/23
Planned Social Housing Units	5 800	6 700	8 000