Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale on Thursday unveiled 341 units of the Morgan’s Village III affordable housing project in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town.
The project is a partnership between the national human settlements department, its Western Cape counterpart, the National Housing Finance Corporation (NHFC) and the Cape Town Community Housing Company (CTCHC).
The Morgan Village housing project provides affordable rental units to people earning between R1500 and R3500.
“Our priority is to ensure that we provide not only decent, but affordable rental units within the city centre in line with our mandate to ensure that people stay nearer to places of work, clinics and schools,” Sexwale told guests at the event.
The Morgan’s Village project is the second to be opened by Sexwale in the past two days, the first being in Polokwane.
He said the government was increasing the pace of providing affordable rental units within the city centres across the country, in line with its programme “to do things differently and faster”.
“Part of our objective as a department is to ensure that we increase the pace at which we construct and renovate inner city buildings.
“These houses we are opening today provide exactly that; it gives our people dignity and decent shelter at a very affordable rate,” Sexwale said.
Affordable rental units in the inner cities would also help alleviate the housing backlog in the country.
“Many of our people come to cities for work. They come from different provinces of our country, leaving their homes. What they are looking for is decent and affordable rental options, a place they can put their head down, but a decent place,” he said.
The aim was to build more than 25 000 rental units over the next three years.
Once complete, the Morgan's Village project would consists of 682 mixed development units.
- Sapa
The project is a partnership between the national human settlements department, its Western Cape counterpart, the National Housing Finance Corporation (NHFC) and the Cape Town Community Housing Company (CTCHC).
The Morgan Village housing project provides affordable rental units to people earning between R1500 and R3500.
“Our priority is to ensure that we provide not only decent, but affordable rental units within the city centre in line with our mandate to ensure that people stay nearer to places of work, clinics and schools,” Sexwale told guests at the event.
The Morgan’s Village project is the second to be opened by Sexwale in the past two days, the first being in Polokwane.
He said the government was increasing the pace of providing affordable rental units within the city centres across the country, in line with its programme “to do things differently and faster”.
“Part of our objective as a department is to ensure that we increase the pace at which we construct and renovate inner city buildings.
“These houses we are opening today provide exactly that; it gives our people dignity and decent shelter at a very affordable rate,” Sexwale said.
Affordable rental units in the inner cities would also help alleviate the housing backlog in the country.
“Many of our people come to cities for work. They come from different provinces of our country, leaving their homes. What they are looking for is decent and affordable rental options, a place they can put their head down, but a decent place,” he said.
The aim was to build more than 25 000 rental units over the next three years.
Once complete, the Morgan's Village project would consists of 682 mixed development units.
- Sapa
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