Cape Town: The city carried out the maintenance at Hangberg Public Housing. The public housing maintenance teams are in areas around the city for public housing upgrades and maintenance.
The city carried out the maintenance and repairs on July 22, 2024 at several public housing units in Hangberg, Hout Bay. The Human Settlement Directorate of the City of Cape Town places special focus on its public housing units and has set aside more than R1.2 billion for upgrades and maintenance.
Considering this, Member of the Mayoral Committee for Human Settlements – Councillor Carl Pophaim joined the teams in Hout Bay, where the maintenance work was being carried out.
According to him, the efforts to take back the public housing units – by investing, boosting and enhancing the safety is going on in all areas. He mentioned that the city launched its public housing upgrades and investment campaign in 2024, on which they have a large focus on priority work and general maintenance.
Councillor Pophaim made this clear that they are working non-stop to improve the lives of the tenants on a daily basis and they are investing more than R1 billion into the public housing more than the next three years.
Pophaim also said, “The City’s maintenance day service enhancement offering has proven to be an excellent method for the teams to pool all resources and do as much maintenance as possible.”
He stated that the teams carried out plumbing repairs, electrical work and general repairs in Hangberg. “We ask tenants to reach out to the City for their maintenance needs and emergencies,” cleared Pophaim.
MCM for Human settlements – Carl Pophaim, said that the tenants are also urged to stand with them in their fight against public vandalism and anonymous tip-offs, where they are welcomed.
Hangberg Public Housing
The City of Cape Town has initiated a housing development in Hout Bay as part of the Community Residential Units (CRU) Programme. The CRU Programme targets low-income people and households, who are earning between R800 and R3500 per month but who are unable to afford private rental or social housing.
Notably, Seventy-two units were constructed on Erf 8176 in Hout Bay. Most of the units comprise of two bedrooms (40 m2), but there are selcted few one-bedroom units. Special needs units for the disabled have been accommodated specifically on the ground floor and with the access of wheelchair.
Delta BEC is the section which was appointed to provide professional engineering and design services for the Hangberg CRU development. Indeed, the team was made up of civil, structural and electrical engineers as well as quantity surveyors, town planners, and architects.
The main requirements and demands from a design point of view included, creating a residential development that enables and creates a sense of neighbourhood and community within.
A limited variation in accommodation types was considered and created to generate a sense of unity and interest, among the residentsa. The outdoor spaces were carefully designed to avoid any social problems that typically haunt the neglected and unused areas.
Special consideration was given to the youth and toddlers of the development, whose play areas were designed, keeping in mind, to be more convenient and safe, and easily visible. Safe pedestrian routes, that are away from vehicles were created, and the road layout discouraged fast moving traffic and traffic noise.