Gauteng Department of Local Government and Housing has significantly expanded its capacity to implement programmes and deliver a wider range of services to the people. Five key priority programmes were developed to demonstrate the department's commitment to building an effective and caring government. These programmes include improving the functioning of government, ensuring more effective service delivery, improving government efficiency and financial management and effective interaction and communication with the people of Gauteng Province.
Since 2004, our department achievement can be seen through:
* Mixed development housing developments
* Upgrading and eradication of informal settlements
* Alternative tenure
* Urban renewal
* 20 priority township programme.
The department continues to record significant acceleration in housing delivery, as implementation of Breaking New Ground St rategy gets into full swing. Since the introduction and implementation of the Breaking New Ground (BNG) strategy, government has been on a mission to ensure its commitment to improve service delivery and address the housing backlog.
Over the past 14 years, R100 billion has been spent in providing serviced land and top structures, and more than 2,7 million families have now houses and the land they call their own. In addition, Gauteng Department of Housing has recorded a high success rate in transferring houses previously owned by the state into private ownership as part of a process to promote homeownership in the province. Since 1995, 263 837 houses have been transferred to the previously disadvantaged beneficiaries in Gauteng.
Issued by: Department of Housing, Gauteng Provincial Government
2 June 2009
Source: Department of Housing, Gauteng Provincial Government (http://www.housing.gpg.gov.za/)
