Together with the national and provincial Department of Human Settlements, the eThekwini Municipality is set to deliver 360 residential units in the New Year. These units will provide residents of the Isipingo transit camp with a secure and dignified place to call home.
The Kanku Road Housing Project, which began in March 2020, is anticipated to be finished by June 2023. The development consists of double-story semi-detached flats and high-density housing units.
According to the project manager, Nqobile Hadebe, the project comprises all the essential infrastructure, as well as extra sites for a sewage pump station, a detention tank, and an electrical substation.
All apartments will have access to municipal waterborne sewage, water, and power, in addition to roads and storm water infrastructure.
“The residents will be moved into the new houses after the sewer pump station is completed in January. The housing project is being rolled out in phases, with some houses nearly complete.
“Once the residents have been moved to their new houses, the transit camp will be completely demolished and the area will have its environment rehabilitated,” Hadebe said.
The Isipingo transit camp was established as a temporary housing option for families living in informal settlements while permanent housing was being constructed.
The Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Nomusa Dube-Ncube, along with the Minister of Human Settlements and Public Works, Dr. Ntuthuko Mahlaba, and the Mayor of eThekwini Municipality, Mxolisi Kaunda, will facilitate the relocation of over 1,600 flood victims from community mass care shelters to new decent housing today.
Since the province was devastated by floods in April and May of this year, the Department of Human Settlements has acquired a variety of housing, which will be exposed so that the remaining mass care shelters may be closed permanently.
Since the floods, the KwaZulu-Natal provincial administration has shut 71 mass care sites.
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