Cape Town: Driven by delivery, the City of Cape Town is building the City of Hope through Human Settlements Delivery. To this Member of the Mayoral Committee for Human Settlements – Councillor Carl Pophaim released an official statement.
According to his statement, the City of Cape Town is a hard at work with its roll out of massive Human Settlements projects across the metro region. Approx. 98% of the current year’s Human Settlements budget will include grant funding which is expected to be spent by July 2025.
Since is joining, Councillor Carl Pophaim MMC for Human Settlements, have made it a mission to help in building a city of hope through the programmes of the Human Settlements Directorate. The consistent delivery speaks for itself and demonstrated daily through tangible action on the ground in the communities and reflected in the grant spending which consistently reached between 98% to 99%.
Therefore, disingenuous for some commentators and even politicians claimed that the City of Cape Town only served a few selected, when in fact the work priorities, as the most vulnerable in the society and the audited data as a back-up plan.
The Human Settlements grant funding goes directly into the communities who need it the most. They will be doing so much more in the new financial year. Grant funding spend is an incredibly important indicator of service delivery and a pro poor focus, as it is earmarked for the most vulnerable communities, for Human Settlements projects and basic services.
However, there are also large-budget Human Settlements projects that are being rolled out across the metro, that includes Macassar, Durbanville, Kraaifontein, Khayelitsha, Helderberg, Delft, Philippi, Nyanga, Atlantis, the Cape Flats, Hout Bay and Central Cape Town among many others.
At the heart of successful progress and delivery is support from community members, councillors, project steering committees, contractors, project managers and management across many of the City of Cape Town Departments.
Notably, the Human Settlements Directorate plans to spend approx. R8.3 billion in capital and operational budget on affordable housing projects, as well as on the enhancement of service delivery projects across the metro over the next three years.
For the next coming three years, the City of Cape Town drafted budget for Human Settlements plans, that are to be allocated:
- Over R831 million are invested for the provision of the traditional subsidy housing for breaking new ground with a focus on the elderly beneficiaries, child-headed households and beneficiaries with disabilities.
- R1.3 billion will be allocated to upgrade informal settlements.
- 5 billion will be used for scaling up the provision of serviced sites.
- R1.9 billion is set aside in total capital and operational budget for the upgradation and maintenance of the Council flats over the medium term.
- Also, R32.9 million will be used for the No Cost Transfer and R4 million for the Title Deeds programmes for the 2025-26 financial year.