Mandate and medium-term policy 
                                priorities
     •  Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) – 
        sets out framework and principles for sustainable 
        development
     •  Botshabelo Housing Accord (1994)  Signed by  housing 
        stakeholders 
     •  Subsequent white paper on Housing (1994) and the 
        Housing Act (1997)
     •  Millennium Development Goals
     •  SA CONSTITUTION
         – Section 26: Right to access adequate housing
         – Schedule 4: National and Provincial Governments have 
            concurrent legislative competence
          
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            Mandate and medium-term policy 
                            priorities cont.
     •  The White paper on Housing remains the pillar of 
        housing policy.
     •  The priorities of the Comprehensive Plan are to:
         – Accelerate housing delivery within the context of sustainable 
            human settlements;
         – Improve the quality of housing products and environments and 
            turn housing into assets;
         – Create a single and efficient formal housing market;
         – Restructure and integrate human settlements;
         – Utilize the provision of housing as a job creation strategy; and
         – Ensure access to property to alleviate asset poverty and foster 
            empowerment;
         – 2009 Human Settlements focus.
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       Key Elements (Pillars) of HS Strategy
                                Expected 
                               Outcomes 
                                 Urbanisation &
                               Spatial Management
                     Key           Macro 
               Service Delivery Co-ordination Transformation
                  Priorities   & Alignment(Paradigm shift)
                                   Institutional 
                                  Re-alignment
                            prevailing reality
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          Pillars/ elements of the Human 
          Pillars/ elements of the Human 
       Settlements Development Strategy
       Settlements Development Strategy
 Element 1: Statement of Outcomes (expectations) 
              » Prevailing reality 
              » Mandate (manifesto/ SoNA/ Budget Speech)
              » Sustainability considerations (today’s choices for a better future)
 Element 2: Macro Co-ordination & Alignment 
 Element 3: Urbanization & Spatial Management
 Element 4: Key priorities 
              » Residential Property development Governance (2009/10)
              » Shelter development: (2009 – 2014) – “Core mandate period”
              » Long term (2009 – 2025)
 Element 5: Transformation: Paradigm shif
 Element 6: Institutional Re-alignment for Implementation
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   STRATEGY PILLAR 1: Expected Outcomes
 NOTE: Stubborn apartheid ‘legacy’ and consequences of 
    urbanization & migration ( also unintended consequences)
 • Functional and empowering settlements
 • Livelihood and life enhancing habitation
 • President Zuma: Human Settlements “is more 
                    than just building houses…”
 • Minister Sexwale: …places where people can play, stay and 
    pray. They should be green, landscaped communities -- 
    pleasant places, where people live, learn and have leisure. 
 • Freedom Charter: Houses, security and comfort
 • Sustainable development principles & choices today…!
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