We respond to Ivan Turok’s recent Daily Maverick article entitled, “What will housing mega-projects do to our cities?”
In order to deliver on its mandate – the release of suitable land for the creation of sustainable human settlements – the HDA developed a geographic information system (GIS) tool called LaPsis (Land and Property Information System).
Special attention is being paid to ways of speeding up the development of sustainable human settlements in the Nelson Mandela Metro.
Our Free State team has made good progress in increasing the amount of co-ordination with the provincial human settlements department and colleagues in the Mangaung Metro.
Three properties have been released by the Limpopo Department of Rural Development and Land Reform to speed up the formalisation of the Phucukani and Kwa-Ngovovane townships.