Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille has proposed innovative building methods to tackle the city's housing backlog.
De Lille revealed her plans yesterday when she announced her administration's development strategy.
She said 450,000 people were on the waiting list for houses in the city. Those receiving homes now had been waiting since 1989.
The housing backlog was compounded by urban migration.
There are 227 informal settlements in the city.
"The norm has been to build houses from mortar and bricks only. When a tender goes out, the company must build a house [using] cement and bricks.
De Lille revealed her plans yesterday when she announced her administration's development strategy.
She said 450,000 people were on the waiting list for houses in the city. Those receiving homes now had been waiting since 1989.
The housing backlog was compounded by urban migration.
There are 227 informal settlements in the city.
"The norm has been to build houses from mortar and bricks only. When a tender goes out, the company must build a house [using] cement and bricks.
"We've not really ventured into innovative methods of building houses," said De Lille.
"There are a number of good ideas but, because of the way in which the tender process is structured, it almost excludes people who build houses differently. That is what we are looking into, [to] speed up housing delivery."
She did not reveal what alternative plans were being looked at.
De Lille said the integrated development plan would become the city's development framework to increase investment, foster job creation and alleviate poverty . De Lille's strategic programme includes promoting oil and gas drilling, installation of fibre-optic networks and gaining control of the port and the small harbours.
She said the city would implement its integrated rapid transport programme and increase funding for skills training and development. The city would also improve primary healthcare services to informal settlements and implement an open name-changing policy to ensure that the city reflected the diversity of its people.
"When I campaigned to be mayor, I did so on the basis of five pillars for the next five years: the opportunity city, the safe city, the caring city, the inclusive city and the well-run city," De Lille said.
"The integrated development plan is a document required by legislation.
"We are using it to map out our future and to provide the streams in which we will measure our success."
- Timeslive
She did not reveal what alternative plans were being looked at.
De Lille said the integrated development plan would become the city's development framework to increase investment, foster job creation and alleviate poverty . De Lille's strategic programme includes promoting oil and gas drilling, installation of fibre-optic networks and gaining control of the port and the small harbours.
She said the city would implement its integrated rapid transport programme and increase funding for skills training and development. The city would also improve primary healthcare services to informal settlements and implement an open name-changing policy to ensure that the city reflected the diversity of its people.
"When I campaigned to be mayor, I did so on the basis of five pillars for the next five years: the opportunity city, the safe city, the caring city, the inclusive city and the well-run city," De Lille said.
"The integrated development plan is a document required by legislation.
"We are using it to map out our future and to provide the streams in which we will measure our success."
- Timeslive
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It was before the arms deal expose and two political parties ago I sat and spoke to Patricia de Lille about Cannabrick housing...
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