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Mega housing plans for Gauteng Ntombi Nkosi, The New Age, Johannesburg, 10 November 2014 The days of building small and sporadic housing projects of about 100 to 200 units will soon be gone and replaced by mega housing projects. The Gauteng government said such small scale projects are normally far from economic opportunities and transport infrastructure and they do not make a meaningful dent in addressing the housing backlog. This was revealed at a two-day human settlements lekgotla which was held in Sedibeng. Addressing the lekgotla on Friday, Gauteng Premier David Makhura expressed the need to modernise human settlements by turning to catalytic mega housing projects which should yield no less than 15000 housing units per project. "These mega housing projects will be well planned and coordinated across Gauteng and should be located within economically active areas that are also well connected to transport infrastructure," human settlements MEC Jacob Mamabolo said. The lekgotla brought together all leaders within the human settlements sector in Gauteng including Rand Water and Eskom to map a high impact provincial housing programme intended to change the housing landscape in Gauteng. Key among the deliberations were plans for the implementation of new mega projects, acceleration of housing delivery, formalisation and eradication of informal settlements, improving access to all forms of housing products across all income groups and regeneration of old townships. Mamabolo is expected to share outcomes of the lekgotla and plans for the future of human settlements in Gauteng today. [email protected] From: http://tnaepaper.co.za/ -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
