The Cape Town Community Housing Company (CTCHC) has been told to put in writing its appeal to the city council for a contribution to the R35-million it will cost to repair 2 473 defective houses.
Neil Ross, chairman of the City of Cape Town's housing portfolio committee, told CTCHC chief executive Fungai Mudimu that the committee was not mandated to allocate funding for remedial work to the low-cost houses built by the company.
The committee was presented with an audit of the defective houses and asked to contribute to the repair bill.
But Ross said: "Funding was to have come from the national housing rectification process, (yet) today we are told only some of the funding will come from that source.
"You need to put a proposal in writing to this council if you want money to be put into this process. That will have to go before the finance committee and Mayco."
Mudimu had told the committee the steps taken to consult residents about the audit. He said community leaders, Local Government and Housing MEC Richard Dyantyi and Premier Ebrahim Rasool's office had been informed about the defects.
Dyantyi had committed his department to paying for some of the repairs, but wanted a breakdown of repairs and costs, Mudimu said.
"He wants to know how much it will cost for all the roofs, how much to fix all the walls, for example. We hope he will tell us how much he is prepared to put forward and I'm here today to solicit some funds for this programme."
Committee members expressed concern about the R35m repair bill, with some saying this was more than it had cost to build the houses and that the City had forked out R10m for repairs six years ago.
Hans Smith, of the City's Human Settlements Services, said residents should also bear some responsibility because not all the damage to the houses - such as broken windows and leaking gutters - arose from defective building.
In his presentation to the committee, Jeffrey Mahachi, technical director of the National Homebuilders Regulatory Council, said the council's audit last year had covered nine areas, including Manenberg, Mitchell's Plain and Philippi. The houses had been checked individually and it was found 98 percent of the 2 473 had minor defects, he said.
Factors that contributed to the defects included soil erosion, poor workmanship and the use of incorrect materials. Using a scale of 0-100 percent, with 100 for a house without defects, most of the houses scored between 65 percent and 70 percent. In one area, the average was 30 percent.
The bill to repair homes with major defects would be about R20m and those with minor defects about R15m, Mahachi said. - Cape Argus
Neil Ross, chairman of the City of Cape Town's housing portfolio committee, told CTCHC chief executive Fungai Mudimu that the committee was not mandated to allocate funding for remedial work to the low-cost houses built by the company.
The committee was presented with an audit of the defective houses and asked to contribute to the repair bill.
But Ross said: "Funding was to have come from the national housing rectification process, (yet) today we are told only some of the funding will come from that source.
"You need to put a proposal in writing to this council if you want money to be put into this process. That will have to go before the finance committee and Mayco."
Mudimu had told the committee the steps taken to consult residents about the audit. He said community leaders, Local Government and Housing MEC Richard Dyantyi and Premier Ebrahim Rasool's office had been informed about the defects.
Dyantyi had committed his department to paying for some of the repairs, but wanted a breakdown of repairs and costs, Mudimu said.
"He wants to know how much it will cost for all the roofs, how much to fix all the walls, for example. We hope he will tell us how much he is prepared to put forward and I'm here today to solicit some funds for this programme."
Committee members expressed concern about the R35m repair bill, with some saying this was more than it had cost to build the houses and that the City had forked out R10m for repairs six years ago.
Hans Smith, of the City's Human Settlements Services, said residents should also bear some responsibility because not all the damage to the houses - such as broken windows and leaking gutters - arose from defective building.
In his presentation to the committee, Jeffrey Mahachi, technical director of the National Homebuilders Regulatory Council, said the council's audit last year had covered nine areas, including Manenberg, Mitchell's Plain and Philippi. The houses had been checked individually and it was found 98 percent of the 2 473 had minor defects, he said.
Factors that contributed to the defects included soil erosion, poor workmanship and the use of incorrect materials. Using a scale of 0-100 percent, with 100 for a house without defects, most of the houses scored between 65 percent and 70 percent. In one area, the average was 30 percent.
The bill to repair homes with major defects would be about R20m and those with minor defects about R15m, Mahachi said. - Cape Argus
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