HDA Annual Report

ANNUAL REPORT 2023/24

As stated in the Department of Human Settlements’ 2023/24 Annual Performance Plan (APP): “The totality of the living environment (ecosystem) has a bearing on the delivery of human settlements, and this necessitates for the environment to be carefully analysed against the possibility of achieving human settlement targets. Housing and human settlements delivery focuses on spatial management, i.e., the living environment or ecosystem.” Spatial transformation is a key to changing the historical spatial patterns in South Africa. The HDA will continue to ensure that human settlement projects have responsibility for complying with the spatial principles of the Spatial Land Use Management Act of 2013 (SPLUMA) and with the NDP Vision 2030. The Agency owns 243 land and property assets, which includes approximately 822 000 hectares of land. The collection of properties comprises inner city structures in Braamfontein, Johannesburg and Sea Point, Cape Town. As part of a variety of instruments targeted towards providing affordable housing, inner-city properties are a part of the inner city revitalisation and the buildings are designated for inner-city human settlement development. The vacant land parcels are planned for development under several human settlement programmes in collaboration with the private sector and are now in various phases of land preparation. Organisational Environment The HDA Act No. 23 of 2008 established the Agency to augment the current state capacity to meet the Constitutional mandate for the adequate and integrated delivery of sustainable human settlements. The establishment of the HDA achieves this in the following ways: The HDA augments the efforts of the government to address obstacles and failures, and supplement and improve delivery by using and leveraging government funds and instruments to address the failure of the private sector to partner with the state and scale up delivery particularly in the low- and middle-income sectors, whilst also redressing spatial dislocation and lack of integration. •

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The HDA is mandated to support the activities of municipalities and provinces not able to meet human settlement objectives and targets, by complementing their delivery efforts through improved and fast-tracked spatial planning, land identification and acquisition, packaging and housing development. The Constitution provides that housing is a concurrent function. The HDA Act allows the Minister to mandate and contract the HDA as a support agent to the sector. Within concurrency, the Minister is reliant on mandating, contracting and funding the HDA based on the support and consensus of a province and/or municipality.

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Considering the above, the role of the HDA can be summarised into three key functions:

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Identification and acquisition of land for human settlement development. Facilitation of housing delivery, project packaging, and design of human settlement development. The HDA will ensure that the delivery of projects is undertaken in line with the district development model.

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Identify, Hold, Acquire, and Release Land

The HDA performs the following:

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Land planning: This requires spatial planning and establishing and defining housing needs. Land studies to identify land for housing development

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Feasibility assessments of land

Acquisitions of land

Landholding

Property management of acquired land whilst it is being packaged for development or in the case of land banking it will be held for future development when the planned investment has taken place. Land packaging: This includes bulk services provision, town planning, township establishment, zoning, subdivision or consolidation, environmental impact assessments, etc.

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