Gauteng Department of Human Settlements has cancelled housing plans due to “land invasions” and a shortage of suitable land.

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The Gauteng Department OF Human Settlements is being SLAMMED for failing to meet its own housing targets for the year.

A total of 500 military veterans have big smiles after picking up brand new keys to houses in Carltonville, West of Gauteng.

Shayne Taliona is one of about 30 people who now live at 2 Willow Road in divided rooms in the dilapidated circus school building.

The material, being kept on vacant land at the airport in Plettenberg Bay, was meant for a Temporary Relocation Area for 71 households.

Can’t afford to buy a house? It’s time to think outside the box, with containers and pod units providing a nifty, budget-beating alternative.

Four committee members from the Housing Development Agency were arrested by the Hawks in different parts of Johannesburg on Friday.

Cape Town residents have taken to social media to praise the body corporate of a well-known housing complex for hiring unemployed people.

Information has been circulating that social housing projects in central Cape Town will be cancelled. Is there any truth to it?

Residents of Mkhondeni’s Sacca informal settlement blocked all access roads demanding answers for a housing project promised in 2017.

Green shipping containers are home to some 300 people after their original two-room units were demolished to make way for new homes.

People from several Gauteng communities marched through central Johannesburg under the banner of the Gauteng Housing Crisis Committee (GHCC).

Some 2 900 kilometres east of Moscow, Tomsk is one of the oldest cities in Siberia, founded in 1604 on the banks of the river Tom.

The Western Cape Department of Human Settlements has made available three categories of housing subsidies to assist the most vulnerable.

Mosebenzi Zwane testified about the Free State Housing Project at the State Capture Commission on Friday 25 September.

Residents were to be relocated to their new homes in Winning Way in July but it became clear that the deadline would not be met.

Spokesperson for the current Human Settlements MEC Masiza Mazizi said it was due to a disagreement between the department and the contractor.

‘When we built our shack three weeks ago, we never thought they would be demolished. I lost my job as soon as the lockdown started.’

The Limpopo government came under fire for the multimillion rand shack project, prompting Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu to enter the fray and launch a probe

The Drakenstein Municipality says there is ‘very little room’ for a court to play a supervisory role over its emergency housing plan.

Lindiwe Sisulu said a review on the project is being undertaken by the National Home Builders Registration Council, an agency of the Department that oversees quality assurance of all human settlements projects

It’s understood that the provincial government forked out an estimated R60,000 for each shack.

The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development is having the ground cleared as mandated by the courts.

‘Why is the City taking time to complete the project? The City thinks we are too lazy to protest but those days are over.’

This will be enforced as one of several proposed amendments to the City’s 2015 Allocation Policy for Housing Opportunities.