TOWARDS THE CITY OF CAPE TOWN INTEGRATED SUSTAINABLE HUMAN SETTLEMENT

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TOWARDS THE CITY OF CAPE TOWN INTEGRATED
SUSTAINABLE HUMAN SETTLEMENT

• WESTERN CAPE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE
• 21 JUNE 2005
• DIRECTOR HUMAN SETTLEMENTS CITY OF TOWN

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Vision

• Sustainable City offering future to our
  children and their children
• Triple bottom line - guiding principle
• Social Equity
• Economic efficiency and sustainability
• Environmental integrity and sustainability

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Context

• Backlog 260 000( annual growth- 16 000, delivery
  rate 8 000)
• 193 000 houses delivered in the Western Cape
• City delivered about 43 000
• Periphery development
• Expensive and limited land
• Inflation building material costs
• Planning and environmental approvals
• Big contractors withdrawing
• Major banks reluctant to lend

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National Perspective

• Breaking New Ground Plan Integrated Sustainable
  Human Settlement Plan
• Progressive Informal Settlement Upgrading
• Promoting densification and integration
• Enhancing location of new housing projects
• Urban renewal and inner city regeneration
• Expanding scope of the housing mandate
• Developing social and economic infrastructure
• Rental Housing

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Provincial Perspective

• Provincial Sustainable Human Settlement Plan
• Social and Human Capital Formations
• Strategic Infrastructure Framework
• Provincial Spatial Development Framework

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CITYs PERSPECTIVE
INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PLAN
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GUIDING PRINCIPLES

• Promoting spatial and racial integration
• Ensuring good quality environment
• Facilitating environmental considerations
• Mobilising and coordinating internal and external
  funding
• Communicating effectively and efficiently
• Ensuring alignment within and between key role
  players within and outside of government
• Promoting access and mobility

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OBJECTIVES

• Adequate shelter 20 000 units pa 10 years
  (2004-2014).
• Promoting better quality living environments
• Ensuring spatial and racial integration ,
  especially within Urban Core
• Ensuring housing is developed in line with the
  City wide Spatial Development Framework
• Facilitating Private Sector participation
• Mobilising and supporting communities

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APPROACHES TOWARDS IHSP

• Aligning with City Wide Spatial Development
  Framework
• Aligning with the Urban Core Strategy
• Improving settlement planning
• Accelerating Housing Delivery
• Facilitating mobility and Access
• Strategically Managing Housing Assets
• Integrating Community and Human Development and
• Integrating Economic Development and Job Creation
  

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SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK

• Identify and acquire land
• Greenfields projects represent provinces
  demographics
• Promote mix income precincts
• City land for corporate contribution
• Target Gap market
• Promote employer assisted housing
• Small scale land development
• Promote medium density schemes
• Public Infrastructure investment
• Prioritise Citys capital budget for IHS

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URBAN CORE

• Land Restitution
• Technical and financial support to District Six,
  Ndabeni etc
• Mixed use development and residential
  densification
• Reflect provincial demographics
• Social Housing
• Strategic Sites
• Underutilised facilities

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ACCELERATING DELIVERY

• Urban Core
• New Housing Developments
• Upgrading of Informal Settlement Areas
• Area Based Urban Renewal

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IMPROVED SETTLEMENT PLANNING

• High level Cross Department Coordination
• Multi functional design and monitoring teams
• Precinct Planning and Designs
• Multi Term Planning Scoping

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HOUSING MANAGEMENT

• Existing Rental Stock
• New Rental Stock
• Improving management
• Consumer Education
• Tenant Committees
• Community based property entrepreneurs
• Housing information and development centres

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Integrated Economic Development and Job Creation

• Economic Drivers
• Expanded Public Works Programme
• Women headed developers and contractors ( 10)
• BEE Material Supply and Manufacturing
• Incubation Programme Skills Development and
  Mentorship

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INTEGRATED COMMUNITY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

• Improved communication
• Information sessions
• Consumer Education
• Community mobilisation and support
• PHP Groups
• Savings Groups
• Stokvels
• Youth and Women organisation

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FINANCE

• Diversify funding sources
• Low interest off shore loans
• Pension funds
• Community savings
• Bridging loans
• Create investor friendly lending environment
• Intersectoral cross funding and subsidy ( DANIDA)
• Link to Mega Projects( 2010 World Cup)
• Leveraging of non housing sector funding( energy
  efficiency funding)
• Grant funding( energy, greening)

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ACCESS AND MOBILITY

• Locate housing along transport corridors
• ( Klipfontein, Voortrekker)
• Utilise vacant sites near public transport
  interchanges
• Educate on spatial densities and medium density
  housing

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RISKS AND DEPENDENCIES

• Financial Availability
• Land Availability
• National housing policies
• Statutory approvals
• Resources
• Private sector interest

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THANK YOU
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GUIDING PRINCIPLES

• Promoting spatial and racial integration
  Greenfield developments. Demographics of the
  province departure point in line with the
  integrated data base.
• Ensuring good quality environment Size ,
  standard of units as well as its surroundings.
  The precinct development planning and development
  approach to be used in line with different
  categories of the data base
• Facilitating environmental considerations Energy
  efficiency , greening projects and promoting
  environmental health- pollution prevention
• Mobilising and coordinating internal and external
  funding Gearing private sector funding,
  promoting savings, attracting foreign funding,
  creating incentives in respect of Urban Tax
  Incentives- SARS
• Communicating effectively and efficiently
  Communicating broadly with stakeholders including
  consumers, opinion makers, NGOs and CBOs. Housing
  Estate Offices to be transformed into development
  and information centers.
• Ensuring alignment within and between key role
  players within and outside of government
• Promoting access and mobility Locate housing
  near transport corridors, activity nodes in line
  with provincial and citys infrastructure plan