Emma Louise Powell

Dear MyPE The Department of Human Settlements (DHS) has sent an alarming letter to provinces, instructing them to put measures in place to immediately downscale the delivery of top structures (government houses). According to the letter sent to Provincial Heads of Department by the Acting Director General, “the current economic reality renders the housing subsidy approach to delivering top structures fiscally unsustainable”. This means that the African National Congress (ANC) has … [Read more...] about Provinces instructed to stop planned housing projects as government has run out of money

Dear MyPE The ANC in Parliament yesterday voted to cut more than R2.26 billion from the Department of Human Settlements’ (DHS) annual budget. The ANC were supported by Patricia De Lille’s Good Party, the IFP, ATM, NFP and Al Jama-ah. The Human Settlements Department, which exists specifically to help poor outh Africans, received the second largest budget cut of all Government Departments. Of the R2.26 billion erased from the Housing Department’s budget, R1.7 billion was cut from the … [Read more...] about Housing Budget receives second largest cut