Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

acash

Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements and Housing
ACASH

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Publish Date07/06/2007
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Edited BySuneela Farooqi
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Framework for an Inclusionary Housing Policy (IHP)

The contract basically states that “every commercial development including housing developments that are not directed at those earning R1500 or less, spend a minimum of 20% of project value on the construction of affordable housing (currently defined as housing targeting households earning between R1500 and R8000 per month) No position has however been legislated and no formal national policy framework exists In the first half of 2006 the NDOH commissioned and reflected on internationalexperience regarding inclusionary housing Since then the NDOH has been engaging with the private sector to try to find a way of implementing inclusionary housing thinking in way which is appropriate in the South African context and which constitutes a “win-win” scenario for citizens, government and developers Several options have been presented.

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