16 April 2009
Gauteng Department of Housing has significantly expanded its capacity to
implement programmes and deliver a wider range of services to the people. Five
key priority programme 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 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
16 April 2009
Source: Department of Housing, Gauteng Provincial Government (http://www.housing.gpg.gov.za/)
