On Wednesday, 2 December 2020, the City of Cape Town’s Executive Mayor, Alderman Dan Plato and other dignitaries attended the sod-turning of the City’s new R33 million Eindhoven housing project.
The City’s new R33 million Eindhoven housing project in Delft comprises a total of 201 Breaking New Ground (BNG) State-subsidised houses and this project is expected to be completed by the end of June 2021, if all goes according to plan.
‘Today is a special day for the City, as we celebrate various milestones in Delft. The R33 million Eindhoven project is another example of the City’s commitment to providing housing opportunities to the most vulnerable and enabling redress. This project will provide homes to more than 800 people.
‘We are also immensely proud of the progress at the City’s existing The Hague project in Delft. To date, in the final phase, we have handed over 86 units to our qualifying residents and enabled them to become first-time homeowners. A total of 800 new BNG opportunities are being built at a cost of R130 million. We thank the City’s project teams for their continued hard work in helping the City provide homes to our residents across the metro,’ said Alderman Plato.
‘We want to thank the community for working with the City over the next few years to ensure the Eindhoven project becomes a successful reality. It will also be incredibly important that the community at large helps us to prevent the unlawful occupation of this project, and others across the metro.
‘The selection of beneficiaries for housing projects is done in accordance with the City’s Allocation Policy and the City’s Housing Needs Register to ensure that housing opportunities are allocated to qualifying beneficiaries in a fair and equitable manner that prevents queue-jumping. The beneficiary target areas are determined in consultation with the community’s representatives, and submitted to a Housing Allocation Committee for approval,’ said Councillor Malusi Booi, the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Human Settlements.