The HDA, in partnership with the National Upgrading Support Project (NUSP) technical team and Free State Department of Human Settlements, jointly hosted a two-day capacity-building workshop in Bloemfontein on 25 and 26 March 2014.
Officials, politicians, non-governmental organisations and academics from across the country gathered at the Newtown Turbine Hall on 5 and 6 March to discuss themes and demonstrate projects relating to the concept of Spatial Transformation in our Cities, an event hosted by the South African Cities Network (SACN), the City of Johannesburg and the Johannesburg Development Agency.
As part of HDA’s medium-term operational plan (MTOP) with the Free State provincial Department of Human Settlements, the Agency is assisting with its informal-settlement upgrading programme.
According to the HDA’s Act, the Agency must introduce and manage a land inventory and information system. A tool, ‘LaPsis’ or Land and Property Spatial Information System, has been developed.
The N2 Gateway is a national government-led priority project that plans to deliver 15 000 houses in the Western Cape in areas beset with the problems associated with rapid urbanisation, poverty and homelessness.
