Speaking during her budget vote in Parliament‚ Sisulu said it was the government’s “well-researched belief” that as it formalised informal settlements and provided serviced sites to people many of them would save money and build their own homes.
“We agree with the Elders and traditional leaders who continue to tell us that if we make serviced sites available to those who can afford they will build their homes like their forefathers did‚” she stated.
She added that a total of 143‚756 households living in informal settlements had been provided with access to water and sanitation since the inception of the Medium Term Strategic Framework (MTSF) on 1 April 2014 up to 31 December 2015.
Nationally‚ the percentage of households living in formal dwellings had increased from 76% to 80% between 2002 and 2014.
“The rate of provisioning of state-subsided dwellings surpassed the provisioning of formal dwellings in the private sector between 2009 and 2014‚ and the percentage of beneficiaries of state subsidised housing increased from 5‚6% in 2002 to 13‚6% in 2014. Informal dwellings in settlements and backyards have decreased from 17% in 2002 to 11% in 2014.
“Statistics have shown that the percentage of households living in formal dwellings have increased by 4%‚ [from 76% in 80% between 2002 and 2014] resulting in people living in informal settlements have decreased by 6%‚” Sisulu stated.
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