Although government has made important progress towards addressing the sanitation and water supply backlogs since 1994, the sanitation sector is faced with ongoing growth of formal and informal settlements, particularly in urban area, which exacerbates the challenge.
One of the HDA’s major functions is to assist provincial and local authorities to acquire land. Since 2010, the HDA has been working in the Free State Province to fast track the release of land for human settlement development.
The Housing Development Agency (HDA) is a national development agency established by an Act of Parliament (Act 23 of 2008). The HDA promotes sustainable communities by making well-located land and buildings available for the development of housing and human settlements.
The KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Human Settlements Department hosted an Urban Human Settlements Dialogue on 5 and 6 December 2013 in preparation for an overall KZN Human Settlements Summit planned for early 2014.
The HDA is set to introduce an ‘ethics hotline’ in February. Both our Act and our fraud and risk prevention policy state that we must have a HOTLINE.
The hotline facility is managed by Vuvuzela in line with the Protected Disclosures Act, No 26 of 2000 and complies with the Public Finance Management Act (Act No 1 of 1999 as amended). The service level agreement between Vuvuzela and the HDA provides for the total independence of the hotline management, and guaranteed anonymity of reporters; within the parameters of the law.
