1. Portfolio Committee June 2009
Project information
Portfolio Committee
June 2009

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

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

4. 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

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

6. Number of projects vs number of project phases per province

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

8. PHD Classified Blocked Project Phases and NDoHS Slow Moving Project Phases

9. PHD Classified Projects - Unblocked or in process of unblocking

10. Elements of Payment Milestones: Planning

11. Elements of Payment Milestones: Sites

12. Elements of Payment Milestones: Houses

13. Interventions and challenges

14. 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

15. Interventions ..continue
Focus on a house count to establish the reality of information in systems ( approximately 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:

16. 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

17. 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

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

19. Questions ?