Cape Town - The forensic audit, ordered by the multi-party Cape Town government, into the N2 Gateway housing project will continue, Democratic Alliance MP Denise Robinson told the National Council of Provinces on Wednesday.
Robinson, a former city councillor, said this would happen in spite of Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu’s decision to kick the city - which in March voted the African National Congress out of the local government - off the project.
The project adjacent to the Joe Slovo informal settlement is not far from the city’s international airport.
Robinson said the new city government had, nevertheless, committed itself to finishing the N2 Gateway but only “as and when the national government made funds available”.
She noted that the project - expected to house 22 000 families - had cost nearly R135m more than originally intended.
As of June this year only 705 housing units were ready - 3% of the target.
The units, which were all rental units, would not be owned by their intended occupants “as they are completely unaffordable to the people most in need of homes”.
In addition the project was being built on a 50-year floodplain “adding to the city’s costs”, while contractors were still owed millions of rands. - FIN24
Robinson, a former city councillor, said this would happen in spite of Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu’s decision to kick the city - which in March voted the African National Congress out of the local government - off the project.
The project adjacent to the Joe Slovo informal settlement is not far from the city’s international airport.
Robinson said the new city government had, nevertheless, committed itself to finishing the N2 Gateway but only “as and when the national government made funds available”.
She noted that the project - expected to house 22 000 families - had cost nearly R135m more than originally intended.
As of June this year only 705 housing units were ready - 3% of the target.
The units, which were all rental units, would not be owned by their intended occupants “as they are completely unaffordable to the people most in need of homes”.
In addition the project was being built on a 50-year floodplain “adding to the city’s costs”, while contractors were still owed millions of rands. - FIN24
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