The project will include fully subsidised RDP houses for the poorest of the poor, affordable housing for other low income households and middle to high income bonded housing.
It is the biggest project ever to be undertaken by the Gauteng Department of Housing and the City of Johannesburg.
Speaking at the sod turning ceremony to open construction, MEC for Housing Nomvula Mokonyane said the project will address the housing backlog.
"I urge the community to embrace and rally behind this project to ensure it is a success. In the end it will benefit them. This project will address your social and economical conditions," she told those gathered at the event.
Subsidised RDP houses will form half of the project and it will prioritise beneficiaries from the 1996/97 housing waiting list for south-western Johannesburg and eligible residents of Protea South and the Doornkop Farming Community.
She warned those individuals who often attempt to derail service delivery by embarking on unnecessary squabbles.
This follows groups lobbying residents of the Protea South Informal settlement where the area is dolomatic to boycott the Lufhereng project.
"Relocation is voluntary and those who do not want to move should stay behind. We should be on the look out for these people who always try but fail to destabilise our commitment to provide decent houses for our people," said Ms Mokonyane.
The first phase of the project will provide 2 400 detached, semi-detached and row house units and 1500 walk ups. Subsidised beneficiaries will be able to select the unit layout that will suit their individual needs.
Farmers that are currently residing in the land required for the first phase of the project have already been moved. Apart from providing houses, basic amenities such as schools, parks, clinics, business facilities and churches would also be established.
This project forms part of the national Breaking New Ground (BNG) initiative. By Bathandwa Mbola, BuaNews
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