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.
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.
