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February 27 2019
Affordable housing: what SA needs
The overarching definition used in describing affordable housing, is housing units that are affordable to a section of society whose income is below the neighbourhood’s median or average household income. However affordable housing comprises various types of housing and for South Africa’s cities to truly become inclusive, integrated and transformed, affordable housing in urban areas need to […]
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February 27 2019
Mixed response to City of Joburg’s inclusionary housing policy
The rich will soon live side by side with the poor in Johannesburg. The so-called ‘inclusionary housing policy’ that was adopted by the City of Johannesburg on Thursday, which envisages the rich and poor living side by side in some of the city’s exclusive residential developments, has garnered mixed reaction from private property developers. The […]
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February 5 2019
The Department of Human Settlements is steadily increasing its push to get more qualifying people to apply for housing finance that is provided through one of its programmes, the Finance Linked Individual Subsidy Programme (Flisp). Flisp is currently one of the programmes that the Department is currently promoting as part of its campaign to get […]
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February 1 2019
Province grants R300 million for housing after long dispute – Mashaba
Port Elizabeth – Johannesburg metro mayor Herman Mashaba said on Wednesday that the Gauteng provincial human settlements department had committed about R300 million for housing developments in the city for the current financial year. This comes against the backdrop of an ongoing dispute about the Human Settlements Development Grant (HSDG) between the City and Gauteng […]
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