Transcript Document 180428

EKURHULENI
METROPOLITAN
MUNICIPALITY
CITIES ALLIANCE PUBLIC
POLICY FORUM
STATISTICAL OVERVIEW
Total Population (2001)
- Population: Northern SDR
- Population: Eastern SDR
- Population: Southern SDR
2 480
719
839
921
Total population (estimated by 2010)
3 200 000
Number of households
Unemployment rate
Total Number of Wards
Number of Wards: Northern SDR
Number of Wards: Eastern SDR
Number of Wards: Southern SDR
276
279
279
367
744 935
40%
88
26
31
31
Date of Municipalities establishment
Cities and towns amalgamated
Municipal area in Km²
Land
5/12/2000
9
1889km²
190 190 ha
Supporting enterprises
International airports:
Johannesburg International Airport (JIA)
Industries
% GDP from manufacturing
% GDP of Gauteng
5000
1
8000
51%
23%
CURRENT REALITIES
• Urban land invasion - formation of new informal
settlements on the periphery.
• Densification of existing informal settlements.
• High poverty levels.
• Vulnerability
to
marginalisation.
HIV/AIDS
infections
• Global determination of upgrading costs.
and
CURRENT REALITIES
•Increased marginalization.
•Racial
separation
replaced
economic segregation.
•Available land is expensive.
•Decreasing subsidy amount.
•Land speculation
by
CURRENT REALITIES
•Municipal area is 192 000 hectres in
size
•Vacant
land
available
is
approximately 30 700 hectres
•Government owned land available is
6000 hectres
•Private land holding consists of 11
000 hectres
CURRENT REALITIES
•Approximately 13 000 hectres is not
suitable due to poor environmental
legacy inherited.
•Land required for human settlement
is 4000 hectres
•Approximately 58 000 hectres of land
in Ekurhuleni is outside the urban
edge
STRATEGIES
Upgrading
Settlements
Enhanced
invasion
of
land
existing
management
Informal
to
curb
Maintaining a balance in addressing
competing demands for upgrading and
allocations from the Waiting List database
Alignment
with
National/Provincial
strategies – Social Housing Mixed Income
development
STRATEGIES
Approval
of
Municipal
Development Plan.
Housing
Land Audit
Targeted areas
development
of
intervention
and
Development within the determined urban
edge.
HUMAN SETTLEMENT PRIORITIES
•Alignment of the Informal Settlement Upgrading
Programme with new residential development
•De-densification of informal settlements
•Provision of water and sanitation services :The challenge is to fast-track the upgrading of
informal settlements and the provision of water
and sanitation services by 2014.
HUMAN SETTLEMENT PRIORITIES
• Promotion
of
good
intergovernmental alignment
governance
and
• Creation of jobs, skills development, economic
empowerment and equity
• An urban renewal strategy that ensures that we
uplift and upgrade the region
• Implement targets arising from the World Summit on
Sustainable Development in 2002.
• Poverty reduction
• Improved community based participation
Proposed Pro-Poor Land
Development Strategies
Why the need:
• Upgrade existing slum areas
• Improve sustainability of human settlements.
• Promote densification.
• Ensure integration.
• Promote social equality and justice.
• Eradicate poverty.
• Eradicate land speculation
Proposed Pro-Poor Land
Development Strategies
Requirements must include:
• Economic sustainability of the policy.
• Ensure pre-development/development/postdevelopment costs.
• Flexibility.
• Allowances for cross-subsidization.
• Ensure inclusion and discourage exclusion
• Promotion of life-cycle planning in human
settlements
Proposed Pro-Poor Land
Development Strategies
How:
• Discourage sterile absentee landownership.
• Expropriation.
• Activist state intervention in the land
acquisition process.
• Premiums being placed on suitable land for
human settlement.
• Public sector management of subsidized
housing programme.
Proposed Pro-Poor Land
Development Strategies
How:
• Remove state imposed barriers to access to
housing by the poor.
• Allow for the peculiarities of local needs to
determine development priorities.
• Exercise control of land management with
communities
• Desist from best practices with no relevance
Proposed Pro-Poor Land
Development Strategies
How:
• Promote public-private partnerships.
• Mixed income development.
• Re-direct local municipal spending patterns.
• Improving social infrastructure.
• Overhaul planning and design principles
related to human settlements.
Proposed Pro-Poor Land
Development Strategies
Results:
• The council has managed to reduce the land
acquisition backlog to approximately 750
hectres
• A total of approximately 30 portions of
proposed land purchases are under
consideration.
• A total of twenty contracts have been
concluded for the purchase of land subject to
feasibilities/EIA/Geotechnical studies
Proposed Pro-Poor Land
Development Strategies
Results:
• The National and Provincial Departments of
Housing has ring-fenced approximately R85m
for land purchases for housing in Ekurhuleni.
• One portion will yield approximately 13 000
units including 3000 middle to high income
land portions.
• Conservative cross-subsidization amount for
low income housing is R100m