Africa-Press – Namibia. THE Windhoek municipality will appoint a team to conduct public education campaigns to educate residents living in the city’s informal settlements about its policies aimed at controlling entry to and settlement at informal settlements.
Controlled entry policy operationalised The Windhoek municipality will appoint a team to conduct public education campaigns to educate residents living in the city’s informal settlements about its policies aimed at controlling entry to and settlement at informal settlements.The municipality has also tasked the Windhoek City Police and its housing, property management and human settlement departments to identify suitable sites in the informal settlements for the establishment of satellite offices which the two departments will use to implement the controlled entry to informal settlements. City to construct relocation centre at Otjomuise
The City of Windhoek at its council meeting held last week has approved the establishment of a temporary relocation centre at Otjomuise. This site will serve as temporary accommodation for beneficiaries of the affordable housing programme, while their houses are under construction. The relocation centre would also serve as an emergency shelter in case of emergencies or disasters in line with the development and upgrading policy. Under the affordable housing programme, the municipality, in collaboration with the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development, the National Housing Enterprise (NHE) and the Khomas Regional Council plans to construct about 1 200 affordable housing units to benefit low-income residents in six identified informal settlements.
Affordable housing policy approved The Windhoek City Council last week also approved a policy on affordable housing which will govern all affordable housing activities and processes within the city.
The objectives of the policy are to provide the lower-income beneficiaries within the city with incremental housing solutions in accordance with their levels of affordability. The policy would also enable low-income residents to obtain security of tenure and facilitate access to credit/loan facilities for purchasing a house among other things. City to publish waiting list
The Windhoek municipality says it would publish the waiting list of all land and housing applicants, which dates back to 2014’s mass land applications. The municipality says the current manual or file-based database of the applicants would be converted into an electronic database and published on the City of Windhoek’s website for public access. Once the list is made public, stakeholders will be requested to update their records. They will also be allowed to submit objections to names on the list on the basis that a person appearing on the list already owns property in Windhoek, or is the holder of a valid lease with the City of Windhoek. The allocation of land to people on the waiting list, as and when available, would be done in strict accordance with the waiting list.
*Compiled by Sakeus Iikela
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