2014-2019 HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PRIORITIES
(MTSF)
PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
• A vision and mission for human settlements
• Transforming human settlements and National Space
• Identified sub-outcomes to achieve the expected results
• Human Settlements Priorities 2014-2019
• What changes do we want to see?
• MTSF Targets
A VISION FOR HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
• By 2050 visible results from effectively coordinated spatial
planning systems shall have transformed human
settlements in South Africa into equitable and efficient
spaces with citizens living in close proximity to work and
access to social facilities and necessary infrastructure
• By 2030 measurable progress towards breaking apartheid
spatial patterns shall be made, with significant advances
made towards retrofitting existing settlements offering the
majority of South Africans access to adequate housing in
better living environments, within a more equitable and
functional residential property market
MISSION STATEMENT FOR THE
NEXT FIVE YEARS
• Ensure all South Africans have access to adequate
housing and quality living conditions through programmes
that provide 1.5 million housing opportunities for qualifying
households over the next five years, and providing basic
services and infrastructure in all existing informal
settlements
PROPOSAL FOR MTSF DEVELOPMENT FOR
CHALLENGES FACING HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
• Dysfunctional and inequitable settlement patterns
• A fractured housing market with inequitable access to its workings
and benefits
• Weak spatial planning and governance capabilities
• New settlements with no access to basic and infrastructure services
• Delays in issuing title deeds
Proposed solutions by the National Development Plan
• Provision of bulk for targeted development (by municipalities)
• Link municipal spatial planning to investment decisions around bulk
• Revitalise planning processes and support the development of
housing chapters to guide investment and promote collaboration
Ensure that municipalities have clear spatial restructuring strategies
linked to implementation instruments, this includes identifying
priority precincts for spatial restructuring
Proposed solutions by the National Development Plan
• Strengthen link between public transportation and land use management • Urgently review the existing grant and subsidy regime to :
• Ensure diversity in product and finance options for greater spatial mix &flexibility • Prioritise development in inner cities and other areas of economic opportunities • Ensure that housing provision supports livelihood production and job creation • Invest in public spaces and public infrastructure
• Work closely with financial institutions to increase levels of finance to the lower end of the market
Focused Points
• Does the planning with respect to Human Settlement seek to improve the quality of life for people with full respect for indigenous, cultural and social needs?
• Are the planned settlements compliant to the township establishment requirements? • Are the planned settlements addressing integration and density aspect?
• Is the Project Pipelining Realistic, Achievable and Aligned to the National Priorities? • How realistic are the set targets?
• Are the indicators measurable and responsive the main priority of transforming spatial geography?
ACHIEVING THE VISION OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS:
EXPECTED RESULTS FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS
• Outcome: Sustainable Human
Settlements and Improved Quality of
Household Life
• Sub outcomes:
1. Adequate housing and improved quality living
environments
2. A functionally equitable residential property market
3. Enhanced institutional capability for effective
Summary of MTSF Priority Actions to achieve the vision
• Reviewing and improving existing housing instruments and subsidies to better direct housing and human settlement investments
• Increasing the supply of housing opportunities using different tenure types to ensure the diversity necessary to address social, economic and cultural needs • Fast-tracking release of well-located land for housing and human settlements
targeting poor and lower middle income households
• Upgrading of Informal settlements
• Include access to basic infrastructure and services in new developments • Address infrastructure and basic services backlog in existing settlements
Summary of MTSF Priority Actions to achieve the vision
• Implement projects that ensures spatial, social and economic integration
• Develop minimum standards and finance options for investment in public spaces • Issuing of title deeds on occupation
• Intensify homeownership education programmes for the affordable housing market • Increase in the number of properties in the subsidy housing submarket entering the
municipal rates roll
• Provide support for economic development in the identified hubs, nodes and linkages to be developed in historical black townships
• Develop M&E system to measure effectiveness of spatial targeting
• Strengthen programme for accreditation of municipalities
Summary of MTSF Priority Actions to achieve the vision
• Develop a programme to support municipalities that have been accredited
• Develop and implement appropriate human capital development programmes (such as
spatial targeting, construction project management, etc.) to increase technical capacity across all three spheres of government
• Structure grant frameworks to achieve greater spatial efficiency or better spatial targeting • Increase the participation of stakeholders in housing development by encouraging
community-based organizations, civil society organizations, and other forms of non-governmental entities
• Strengthen current mechanism to mobilise private sector to contribute to human settlements development
MTSF Targets
Indicators Targets
Current policies and programmes reviewed and evaluated
All new and revised policies and programmes approved by 2018
Number of houses, housing opportunities located in better living environments
1495 million opportunities provided by 2019 • 2200 informal settlements upgraded by
2019
• 750 000 households benefiting on the upgrading process
• 563 000 individual units for subsidy housing market by 2019
• 27 000 Social Housing Units provided by 2019
• 10 000 Community Residential Unit (CRU) by 2019
MTSF Targets
Indicators Targets
Number of houses, housing opportunities located in better living environments
• 110 000 affordable housing units for the affordable gap housing submarket by 2019 (70 000 FLISP, 40 000 DFI supported • 35 000 affordable rental housing
opportunities provided through private sector (10 000 mine worker housing and 25 000 private affordable rental)
Hectares of well located land rezoned and released for new development targeting the poor and middle income households
• 10 000 hectares of well located land rezoned and released for new
development targeting the poor and middle income households
All new developments have access to basic services and infrastructure
All newly constructed individual units for subsidy housing market with access to basic services and infrastructure by 2019
MTSF Output Targets to achieve adequate housing
Indicators Targets
Title deeds issued to new home owners in the subsidy submarket on occupation
• 563 000 title deeds issued by 2019 Backlog on title deeds eradicated Title deeds eradicated by 2019
Framework that ensures spatial, social and economic integration for human settlements developed
• Consolidated multi-year human settlements development plans by 2015
• Catalytic projects that ensure spatial, social and economic integration
Way forward
• Considerations on contracting for delivering
• Monitoring projects and reporting on financial and non-financial information • Measuring Outcomes and outputs
