Some municipal officials who attended a housing development training session at the University of Cape Town on Monday said finding suitable land often hinders delivery.
Seventy employees from more than twenty municipalities across the Western Cape have been receiving a skills refresher.
Provincial authorities said they cannot afford to spend billions on sub-standard housing.
The Prince Albert municipality’s Ashley America said officials in their area face specific challenges.
“The nature of the Karoo region – it’s very difficult and expensive to install services when doing a housing project because normally those costs are tremendously high and it cuts your budget down which means at the end of the day you are only allowed to build less houses.”
The Human Settlements department’s Rika van Rensburg said, “The whole idea of this programme is to build capacity and enhance our skills."
She said from identifying a site there are questions that need to be asked like, "is this site well-located (and) what are all the planning procedures that we need to follow?”
- Eyewitness News
Seventy employees from more than twenty municipalities across the Western Cape have been receiving a skills refresher.
Provincial authorities said they cannot afford to spend billions on sub-standard housing.
The Prince Albert municipality’s Ashley America said officials in their area face specific challenges.
“The nature of the Karoo region – it’s very difficult and expensive to install services when doing a housing project because normally those costs are tremendously high and it cuts your budget down which means at the end of the day you are only allowed to build less houses.”
The Human Settlements department’s Rika van Rensburg said, “The whole idea of this programme is to build capacity and enhance our skills."
She said from identifying a site there are questions that need to be asked like, "is this site well-located (and) what are all the planning procedures that we need to follow?”
- Eyewitness News
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