1. Motivation for a Managed Land Settlement Programme
Ronald Eglin
August 2018

2. Introduction East London based NGO > 25 years experience
Promoting active citizenship and good governance
Supporting communities, & citizens to effectively engage with the state

3. 1. Millions of people still live in poor conditions
2.1 million households still live in poor conditions
despite government building more than 2.5 million houses over 20 years
2. It will take decades to build
houses for all these people
It will take almost 20 years to address backlog at present delivery rates of 118,000 houses a year (excluding new demand)
South Africa’s Housing Conundrum, No 4, 2015/6 October 2015/Issue 20:

4. A. Present Options B. New Option 1. Wait for RDP house 2. Invade land
3. Allow people to settle on
land in organised manner

5. Managed Land Settlement
At start: provide basic services & basic tenure - so people can move onto land
Managed Land Settlement
Over time: provide development support – so people can improve their own houses

6. Upgrading informal settlement Managed land Settlement
Incremental settlement
Upgrading informal settlement
(UISP)
Managed land Settlement
(MLS)
Site and service
Plot and basic service

7. The Managed Land Settlement Process
Community
‘co-driving’
Community
‘driving’
Community
‘driving’ 1 2 3 4 5
Prepare for
development
Basic
development
Aided
self help
Upgrading
On-going
development
Government
‘co-driving’
Government
‘driving’
Government
‘driving’

8. Basic Development Basic Organising Basic Planning Basic Services Basic
Tenure

9. Basic Tenure Land Records System Nationally constituted &
locally administered
Basic Tenure
Land Records Act
- Proposed by HLPKL
Social unit
- Head of household
- Family
- Extended family
- group
Land rights
- Occupy
- Use for purpose
- Transfer
- Bequeath, etc
Spatial unit
- Cloud
- Point
- Plot (GPS)
- Erf (Land survey)
Why?
- Cheaper to set up &
maintain
- Linked to Deeds
Registration system
(both directions)
Evidence
Piece of paper - Occupation &
Use Rights(OUR) certificate
(similar to PTO)

10. Aided self help Housing support Business support Social support
– Help households to build or organise
the building of their own houses
Business support
– Help construction and other
businesses to start or expand
Social support
– Help children, youth, the aged, the
infirm and people with disabilities, orphans,
women’s groups, neighbourhood residents,
cultural groups, etc to address their needs

11. Get more land – over shorter period of time
Past
- Identify incremental settlement areas in SDF’s
- Municipalities develop and implement a land acquisition programme
- Increase the budget for land acquisition
- Improve capacity for land acquisition (negotiate, expropriate, land swops, land pooling and readjustments)
Future
4 to 5
times
more
land
needed
to get to
aided
self
help

12. Critique & response
Can’t move person from one shack to another.
It creates slums.
Its better than people living in informal settlements & people can start to invest in their own houses as have tenure security
It encourages urban sprawl.
Yes, but can have smaller plots and other programmes like Social Housing and CRU
There is not enough good land for everyone &
it will be expensive
Today’s edge is tomorrows well located. Will need to redirect human & financial resources to land acquisition & explore innovative tools (land swaps, expropriate).

13. Motivation for MLS Just give us land and we will build our own houses.
– homeless movement
It provides an alternative to invasion
and service delivery protests.
– municipalities
It’s easier to upgrade later
– engineers

14. MLS – not new Past Now Incremental Housing Cluster
Gauteng Department of Housing from 1994 to about 2003, including the Mayibuye Programme
4-Peg Policy
Port Elizabeth Municipality (now NMM), over a period of approximately 9 years from the early 1990’s
Accelerated Managed Land Settlement Programme
Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality from about 1999 to 2005
Now
Gauteng Rapid Land Release Programme
Gauteng Dept Human Settlements, to be launched 31 August state (& other) land/ buildings for settlement and urban agriculture
Ethiopia Urban Expansion Initiative
Ethiopian government, partnering with academics and others, started in 2013 as pilot in 4 cities.

15. New momentum for MLS In past: Lack of political will
We will build houses for everyone
Now: Recognition of need for change
In line with the NDP, we will help you get a house, starting with a piece of land with services

16. Recommend two prong approach
Upgrading of informal settlements - on land people already occupying
Build on existing Upgrading informal settlement subsidy programme
Managed Land Settlement
- on new land
Introduce a new Managed
Land Settlement subsidy programme

17. Thanks http://afesis.org.za/managed-land-settlement/
Managed Land Settlement
contributes to Governments
land redistribution targets
&
housing targets