Portfolio Committee June 2009 Project information Portfolio Committee June 2009

Information sources Housing Subsidy System Verification: NHSDB, PERSAL, POP, etc. Warehouse Analysis Reports, Tables and Presentation Mapping of Information

Housing Delivery Note: 2008/09 Delivery figures includes all 4 quarters / Preliminary statistics

Housing Delivery Total 217,348 216,133 271,219 248,850 238,585 Note: 2008/09 Figures are up to 31 March 2009 and are preliminary

Number of projects and project size Note: 2008/09 Figures are up to 31 March 2009 and are preliminary

Number of projects vs number of project phases per province

Number of approved beneficiaries vs delivery Note: 2008/09 Delivery figures includes all 4 quarters / Preliminary statistics

PHD Classified Blocked Project Phases and NDoHS Slow Moving Project Phases

PHD Classified Projects - Unblocked or in process of unblocking

Elements of Payment Milestones: Planning

Elements of Payment Milestones: Sites

Elements of Payment Milestones: Houses

Interventions and challenges

Interventions Various reviews Alignment Performance Planning Building on M&E capacity Developed guidelines Implement early warning systems and indicator systems Focus on project level monitoring and verification

Interventions ..continue Focus on a house count to establish the reality of information in systems ( approximately 900 000 housing units were visited where the GPS co-ordinates were documented) Beneficiary occupancy audit with objective to verify the occupant of the housing units delivered; it would covers 10% of all housing units completed up to June 2008 in 7 of the 9 provinces where information would be collected on both beneficiary and the property Commissioned various impact assessment studies of housing programmes for 2009/10 with the objective to determine the impact on the lives of beneficiaries During project level monitoring and verification working with the municipalities and different Provincial Housing Departments, various challenges were identified:

Challenges identified… PROJECTS WITH SEVERE STRUCTURAL DEFECTS: Poor foundation quality and foundations below ground level Leaking roofs Cracked walls Cracked floors Windows and doors not opening and poor quality materials SERVICES Water pipes leaking MATERIAL SUPPLY SHORTAGES CAUSING DELAYS WITH PROJECT COMPLETION Material not readily available Poor quality of material LACK OF SKILLED WORKERS Technical and Project Management skills

Challenges identified… BENEFICARY IDENTIFICATON Administration insufficient and inadequate Approval process too slow Fraudulent happy letters issued Allocation of houses to wrong beneficiaries Invasion of houses by non-beneficiaries LACK OF BULK INFRASTRUCTURE Funded housing projects that can not proceed with construction as a result of lack of bulk infrastructure CONTRACTORS Poor workmanship Good contractors but slow pace of construction especially emerging contractors

Challenges identified… VANDALISM Housing Units not occupied when completed TRANSFER OF LAND NHBRC ENROLMENT OF PROJECTS

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