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INTEGRATED HUMAN SETTLEMENTS FIVE-YEAR PLAN JULY 2012 – JUNE 2017 2016/17 Review Contents INTEGRATED HUMAN SETTLEMENTS FIVE-YEAR PLAN JULY 2012 – JUNE 2017 2016/17 Review Contents ABOUT THIS SETTING THE UNDERSTANDING PLAN SCENE THE CURRENT REALITY 10 18 CATALYTIC IMPROVING Creating PROJECTS EXISTING LIVING neW living ENVIRONMENTS environments 26 30 40 PARTNERING ADDITIONAL FOR STRATEGIC IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES 52 56 DIRECTORATE STRUCTURE AND LEGISLATION FUNCTIONS AND PLAN INTEGRATION 64 70 FUNDING ANNEXURES 76 80 Denotes: National Development Plan Objectives delivered More online Vision & Mission OF THE CITY OF CAPE TOWN Spearheading this resolve is a focus on infrastructure The vision of the City of Cape Town investment and maintenance to is threefold: provide a sustainable drive for economic growth and • To be an opportunity city that development, greater economic creates an enabling environment freedom, and increased for economic growth and job opportunities for investment creation, and to provide help to and job creation. THE OPPORTUNITY those who need it most. CITY To achieve its vision, the City of • To deliver quality services to all Pillar 1: Ensure that Cape residents. Cape Town is building on the strategic focus areas it has Town continues to grow as • To serve the citizens of Cape identified as the cornerstones an opportunity city. Town as a well-governed and of a successful and thriving city corruption-free administration. and which form the foundation of its five-year Integrated Development Plan. These are as follows: the safe the CARING city city Pillar 2: Make Cape Town Pillar 3: Make Cape an increasingly safe city. Town even more of a caring city. In striving to achieve this vision, the City’s mission is to: • contribute actively to the development of its environmental, human and social capital; the INCLUSIVE the WELL-RUN • offer high-quality services to city city all who live in, do business in or visit Cape Town as Pillar 4: Ensure that Cape Pillar 5: Make sure tourists; and Town is an inclusive city. Cape Town continues to be a well-run city. • be known for its efficient, effective and caring government. These five focus areas inform all the City of Cape Town’s plans and policies. ABOUT THIS PLAN The aim of the Integrated Human Settlements Five- Year Plan is to offer the reader an understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing the City of Cape Town in terms of providing for the housing needs of its steadily growing and increasingly urbanised population, as well as the vision and strategies of the City’s Human Settlements Directorate. This plan is closely aligned with, and contributes to, the City of Cape Town’s overarching five-year Integrated Development Plan and has been developed to enable the realisation of the City’s five key strategic pillars or focus areas. This 2016/17 review is the last in the series of reviews for the five-year period July 2012 to June 2017. Just as the Human Settlements Directorate does not operate in isolation from the rest of the City of Cape Town, this plan should be read in the context of the greater vision and objectives of the current administration. In this way, it forms but one component of a suite of plans, publications and reports that the City produces annually. These include the following: The five-year Integrated Development Plan (2016/17 review) The integrated annual report 2015/16 The 2015/16 – 2017/18 budget Each of these publications offers its readers or other City stakeholders comprehensive information and data on the components of the City’s five strategic pillars that may be relevant to them. While this means that each publication can be read independently of the others, the suite of books should preferably be considered in its entirety to gain a comprehensive understanding of the City’s planning, performance and budgeting structures. Vision & Mission OF THE HUMAN SETTLEMENTS DIRECTORATE The vision of the Human Settlements Directorate is to contribute to and lead the City of Cape Town’s development of sustainable integrated human settlements by improving the overall living and built environment of communities in Cape Town, balancing quantity and quality DEFINING THE VISION housing opportunities, and placing a specific focus on improving the livelihood of the poor. Contribute: Lead: The responsibility to achieve The Human Settlements integrated sustainable human Directorate is the institutional settlements rests with the entire entry point for co-ordinating City, and not just with a single integrated human settlements. The mission of the human directorate. settlements directorate is: • To facilitate and develop sustainable integrated human settlements. • To integrate the delivery of housing opportunities with the objectives and deliverables of Living and built Balancing the rest of the City, thereby environment: Quantity and ensuring that these contribute to The strategic focus is the Quality: the creation of a compact city improvement of both the While the drive to accelerate and optimal use of facilities. living and built environment the delivery of more housing to achieve National Human • To improve informal settlements opportunities (quantity) will Settlements Outcome 8 and continue, there is an equally and backyard precincts related objectives, as required important drive to pursue incrementally and create a by both the Human Settlements quality-of-life objectives better-quality living Development Grant and relating to improved human environment, rather than merely the Urban Settlements settlements. These include providing shelter. Development Grant. reducing travelling time and costs from residential • To manage and maintain the areas to places of economic City’s rental assets strategically. Improving the and recreational amenities; • To lead in the social and livelihood of providing community economic development of facilities in new and existing the poor: settlements; the in situ disadvantaged areas to ensure This requires a people-centred, upgrade and improvement of partnership-based service that quality of life and the informal settlements at scale, delivery process that addresses environment are improved. and ensuring and promoting the essential issues of safety medium-density housing in • To promote and ensure and security, tenure restoration well-located and appropriate meaningful partnerships with and protection, meaningful areas within the urban core, stakeholder relations, and business and community-based along transport corridors and in the effective provision and stakeholders. economic nodes. maintenance of basic services. Message from THE MAYORAL COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR HUMAN SETTLEMENTS The provision of integrated and The high numbers of people who continue integrated approach would be required. In sustainable housing to settle in Cape Town every year in search of response, it developed its Integrated Human opportunities is a better life for themselves and their families Settlements Framework, which has been acknowledged as makes the delivery of housing opportunities designed and implemented to underpin the vital foundation for all an ongoing challenge. However, this an innovative, long-term integrated human on which all citizens administration has always embraced this settlements plan for Cape Town and ensure the of Cape Town can challenge and remains absolutely committed City provides holistic, accessible and working build the lives and futures they to delivering suitable housing for all in solutions to its many housing challenges, most deserve. Cape Town. notably rapid urbanisation. Over the past five years, such housing delivery Importantly, this integrated human settlements has emerged as one of the key measures of framework is underpinned by a transversal the City’s effectiveness in realising its stated management approach that has been enabled by strategic objectives of making Cape Town a the comprehensive restructuring of the Human caring, opportunity, safe, inclusive and well- Settlements Directorate and a commitment to run city. So, while every aspect of the City’s partnering with all other areas and directorates Integrated Development Plan is considered of the City to deliver holistic housing, transport, a priority, the provision of integrated and services that work together to drive the and sustainable housing opportunities is creation of real opportunities for all. acknowledged as the vital foundation on which This transversally managed, highly integrated all citizens of Cape Town can, and will, be able human settlements framework, and its associated to build the lives and futures they deserve. plans, is already delivering significant results for Given this prioritisation of housing delivery for all the City and for the people of Cape Town, as Capetonians, the City has deliberately evolved evidenced by the numerous industry awards and its approach to housing in recent years, from accolades garnered by the City and the Human one that focuses purely on building houses, Settlements Directorate since its implementation to one that serves to fundamentally improve in late 2013. These have included numerous the living circumstances and environments Provincial and National Govan Mbeki Awards, of the people of Cape Town. To achieve that, in both 2014 and 2015, for many of the City’s and deliver the estimated 652 000 additional housing projects as well as recognition by such housing opportunities that will be required by esteemed associations as the South African 2031, the City’s Human Settlements Directorate Institute of Civil Engineering and The South recognised that a more sustainable and highly African Housing
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