Half-constructed MHDP houses to be completed

The minister of urban and rural development, Erastus Uutoni, handed over 319 incomplete Mass Housing Development Programme (MHDP) houses in Swakopmund to New Era Construction.The company has been tasked to complete the houses for occupation. The contract period is for 18 months and brings to an end a long-standing court saga that resulted in the houses standing incomplete for almost five years.“The ministry of urban and rural development is on the move and will ensure delivery of housing and land,” Uutoni said at the event hosted in Matutura. He implored the contractors, New Era Investment, to complete the houses within the 18-month time frame.The first batch of 111 of the 319 houses is envisaged to be completed within six months. The houses are part of 891 commenced-but-not-complete homes constructed under the MHDP in Swakopmund. The mayor of Swakopmund, Dina Namubes, beseeched the contractor to employ members of the community. Namubes also reiterated that the municipality is committed to creating a sustainable, livable, and inclusive city by providing decent housing, employment creation, and opportunities for education as well as access to all types of amenities within a reasonable distance. With the inception of the MHDP, a total of 1 837 houses were planned and commissioned for construction in Swakopmund. Of this total, 1 332 houses have been completed and handed over to the beneficiaries thus far.The MHDP was launched and implemented by the government in 2013 and was aimed at increasing investment in the affordable housing sector and significantly increasing the supply towards meeting the demand for housing in Namibia.In a response regarding the unoccupied mass housing and occupation thereof tendered to Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) leader McHenry Venaani in August this year, prime minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila explained that the completion of 891 houses under the government’s Mass Housing Project is in the hands of the courts.“Five hundred and five of these houses are in Swakopmund, 362 in Windhoek, and 24 in Opuwo. The completion and occupation of these homes is hindered by legal disputes in which the court issued a lien to subcontractors over several houses,” the prime minister said.

Half-constructed MHDP houses to be completed

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