Eight staff members from our Cape Town office attended a Trainer Development Programme for Housing Consumer Education from 21 to 25 January – organised by the Western Cape Department of Human Settlements. The purpose of the training is to equip the HDA with the skills and knowledge required for training and facilitation of consumer education for new homeowners.
New homeowners in Chatty, part of the Zanemvula project, will be the first of many to benefit from a new greening project started in November last year.
The new NUSP website that the HDA has been developing has gone live.
A training manual has been developed to help staff make better use of LaPsis,an online spatial geographic information solution that has been developed to provide a mapped view of potential areas for human settlement development.
The HDA has been very busy in the Free State, identifying privately-owned land for human settlement development. In conjunction with the Free State Human Settlements Department, we organised a land assembly workshopto outline the provincial land needs for sustainable human settlements, and to develop the land pipeline for the current financial year and MTEF period.
