President Geingob hands over MHDP houses in Swakopmund
Making strides
The government will continue efforts to upscale existing informal settlements, service plots and construct houses.
President Hage Geingob handed over 89 houses constructed under the Mass Housing Development Plan (MHDP) to beneficiaries in Swakopmund.
Geingob, applauded the MHDP, for its development projects at 21 sites around the country saying that the government through the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development continues to provide budgetary allocations to Regional and Local Authority Councils to service land.
"In addition to the budgetary allocations another complementary instrument that has been put in place and used by the government in this regard is the Flexible Land Tenure System, whose implementation is spearheaded by Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform and entails five simplified means of providing land ownership without the involvement of conveyancers."
The president added that in an attempt to upgrade the delivery of more serviced land and improved housing, Cabinet on 7 November 2023, approved the revised National Housing Policy and Implementation Action Plan. “The Policy and Action Plan provides accelerated interventions and actions to scale up the upgrading of informal settlements across the country. This upscaling includes the upgrading of at least 60% of existing informal settlements, the servicing of an estimated 340,000 new plots and the construction of an estimated 221,000 new houses over a five or six year period, ranging from 2024 to 2029."
One of the beneficiaries in Swakopmund, Sara Tsaes, a mother of an 11 year old disabled child expressed her gratitude towards the government for the initiative. "This will be our first Christmas in our own house. I sell meat for a living and with what I earn was able to save up enough to purchase the house for N$ 90 000."
The MHDP constructed 4 130 units to date for needy families in the various local authorities and regions. According to the minister of Urban and Rural Development, Erastus Uutoni 308 houses in Swakopmund, 362 in Windhoek and 24 in Opuwo, are at the various stages of construction. Once completed these houses will be handed over for occupation. Uutoni acknowledged the collective effort by several stakeholders including the Ministry of Works and Transport, the Ministry of Finance, the Attorney General and Director General of the National Planning Commission whom he said have all contributed immensely to the project
Geingob, applauded the MHDP, for its development projects at 21 sites around the country saying that the government through the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development continues to provide budgetary allocations to Regional and Local Authority Councils to service land.
"In addition to the budgetary allocations another complementary instrument that has been put in place and used by the government in this regard is the Flexible Land Tenure System, whose implementation is spearheaded by Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform and entails five simplified means of providing land ownership without the involvement of conveyancers."
The president added that in an attempt to upgrade the delivery of more serviced land and improved housing, Cabinet on 7 November 2023, approved the revised National Housing Policy and Implementation Action Plan. “The Policy and Action Plan provides accelerated interventions and actions to scale up the upgrading of informal settlements across the country. This upscaling includes the upgrading of at least 60% of existing informal settlements, the servicing of an estimated 340,000 new plots and the construction of an estimated 221,000 new houses over a five or six year period, ranging from 2024 to 2029."
One of the beneficiaries in Swakopmund, Sara Tsaes, a mother of an 11 year old disabled child expressed her gratitude towards the government for the initiative. "This will be our first Christmas in our own house. I sell meat for a living and with what I earn was able to save up enough to purchase the house for N$ 90 000."
The MHDP constructed 4 130 units to date for needy families in the various local authorities and regions. According to the minister of Urban and Rural Development, Erastus Uutoni 308 houses in Swakopmund, 362 in Windhoek and 24 in Opuwo, are at the various stages of construction. Once completed these houses will be handed over for occupation. Uutoni acknowledged the collective effort by several stakeholders including the Ministry of Works and Transport, the Ministry of Finance, the Attorney General and Director General of the National Planning Commission whom he said have all contributed immensely to the project
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