ABSTRACT
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the housing process of Witzenberg Local
Municipality and determine the involvement of the community and their perception regarding the
whole process. The researcher is using a qualitative method to obtain the views, perspectives and
feelings of the participants. For the purpose of the study is data collection limited to the sample
population of people on the waiting list and those already in possession of low-cost house of the
seven townships in the Witzenberg Local Municipality to. The researcher made use of questionnaires
and interviews to collect data to make a profound finding and recommendation.
In Witzenberg, 41% of households earn less than R30000 per annum (Witzenberg Local Municipality
2012: Online) which indicate that the Witzenberg Local Municipality has a high need for subsidized
housing. The waiting list for low-cost housing in the Witzenberg Local Municipality currently
stands at 6278 of which 1478 are a blocked housing project and a backlog of 4800 houses. The
inhabitants of the Municipality received low-cost housing 8 years ago (Witzenberg Local
Municipality 2012: Online).
Witzenberg Local Municipality does has a housing problem, which stems from finance, affordability,
insufficient land to erect housing projects, overcrowding, and quality of housing, staff shortage,
unemployment, uncontrolled farm evictions and community involvement (Witzenberg Local Municipality
2007a:Online). Low-cost housing is in demand to address the challenges.
Farm evictions, influx into the Witzenberg Local Municipality and forming of informal dwellings and
increasing of squatter camps hold a serious threat to build sustainable, quality low-cost housing
in the Witzenberg Local Municipality and with limit staff is in-flux control very hard to manage.
Although the homeowners of the Witzenberg Local Municipality are happy to have received houses,
they expressed much concern about the poor construction work, overall quality of the materials used
as well as the housing process adopted by the Witzenberg Local Municipality. / Public Administration / M. Admin.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/22767 |
| Date | 02 1900 |
| Creators | Philander, Theresa-Anne |
| Contributors | Khumalo, P., Nealer, E. J. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | 1 online resource (ix, 136 leaves) : color illustrations |
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