Friday, February 15, 2008

Housing below target

THE Nelson Mandela Bay Metro built just 322 low-cost houses in the first six months of the current financial year, against a target of 4000.

And instead of building a projected 8000 low-cost houses in the current financial year the metro has revised that figure down to 3000.

This was disclosed in the mid-term report presented to council yesterday, it being noted that this was a “sharp decline” over the previous years and could be attributed to capacity problems experienced in the last financial year that impacted negatively on current performance.

In addition to the capacity problem, the report notes that Housing and Land also had to operate following the suspension of key personnel in the housing delivery component and also did not have an executive director.

The report said a number of interventions had been made to address the challenges and a comprehensive audit of housing delivery had been undertaken. - The Herald

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