Delivering his State of the Province Address on Friday, Premier Thabang Makwetla said the progress that the provincial government had made last year put the province in a better position to complete all incomplete houses and resume the building of new housing projects in the new financial year.
"In addition to the accelerated delivery of incomplete houses, we will also complete 1,131 emergency houses to alleviate the distress and damage caused by the recent natural disasters that occurred in the province this year," the premier said.
He affirmed that 805 of the emergency houses had been built in the Bushbuckridge Municipality, an area of the province that was the hardest hit by the storms.
The premier said the provincial capabilities to accelerate the delivery of housing have been significantly enhanced by the turnaround interventions implemented at the department.
In the previous year, the provincial government acknowledged serious capacity challenges that impeded the effective delivery of the province's housing programme.
The premier said the intervention to enhance institutional capacity for the delivery of the housing programme entailed the reconstitution of the Department of Local Government and Housing into two distinct departments. - Proffesor Ndawonde, BuaNews
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