1. TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AS PART OF THE INNER CITY SOCIAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY: WOODSTOCK AND SALT RIVER PRECINCT:- CITY OF CAPE TOWN
Pogiso Molapo
MARCH 2018

2. PURPOSE OF THE CITY’S SOCIAL HOUSING PROGRAMME
To provide good Quality Rental Housing in Well Located parts of the City at Rentals Affordable to people on household incomes below R15 000,
To contribute to the Economic, Spatial and Social Integration of the City,
To support the City’s strategic Policies of Densification, TOD, UDZ, Regeneration, Corridors, etc.
To strategically use the City’s
Owned land,
Partnerships and
Institutional Housing Subsidy
To leverage Additional Financial Investments in its Human Settlement Development Objectives.

3. WOODSTOCK AND SALT RIVER SH DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
The City has reserved 10 sites for Affordable Housing and Mix Use developments in Woodstock and Salt River.
These sites have the potential of jointly yielding more than 5000 SH affordable units and assist to achieve our Goals on page one.
There are informal settlements on some of these sites and that has been delaying the Affordable Housing development on these sites for many years.
This situation is not only happening in this area but in in other parts of the City where the intention is to encourage medium and high density affordable rental developments.
The solution is therefore to find accommodation for the Informal Occupants on these sites which will then free up these sites for Affordable Housing development.
We propose the development of “Low income(Transitional) Housing” in this area to accommodate the informal dwellers in this area in order to free up these sites for Affordable Housing development.

4. WOODSTOCK AND SALT RIVER SOCIAL HOUSING SITES

5. PRE-FEASIBILITY FOR LOW INCOME HOUSING PICKWICK STREET

6. TRANSITIONAL HOUSING FOR WOODSTOCK AND SALT RIVER

7. PRINCIPLES OF RE LOCATION:
Respect rights in terms of the constitution.
Reduce displacement from the area.
Provide both short term as well as medium term options for affected individuals and households
Ensure both capital and operational viability of solutions.
Speed up the provision so that there is rapid release of land and buildings for affordable rental development.
Ensure that households make contribution in accordance with affordability based on agreed means testing.
Support tenants to move on to other more permanent options
Agreement with Madulammoho HA (City SHI Partner) to conduct Detailed Feasibility and Design of the facility.
We agreed with Province to use CRU funding for this project.
We have Approved Building Plans for the Transitional Housing.

8. TENANT PLACEMENT GUIDELINES
Maintaining neighbourly relations.
Consider children on the ground floor.
Children organized with safety considerations.
Leaders are placed strategically to supervise/monitor vulnerable families.
Single males are allocated their own space.
Elderly are placed close to the toilets and predominantly on the ground floor.
Disabled individuals are placed on the ground floor.
Couples with adolescent children are granted privacy.

9. FEASIBILITY FOR TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PICKWICK STREET
The Pickwick is site reserved for SH development.
There is a night shelter on part of the site for street boys.
Agreement with the Shelter Management to use the back part for low income rental housing option.
Profiled the Pine Road and Salt River informal dwellers (numbers, households, incomes, preferences etc. (DAG))
Consultation with Rights Groups in the area about the our approach of relocation of the informal dwellers.
We undertaking feasibility studies for Transitional other Transitional Housing Projects in James Street & Elsies River.
We are searching for suitable sites and buildings in more areas .

10. FINANCING CAPITAL FINNACING Phase 1 initial estimate R11.1Million.
Finance with CRU & SOA Grants.
Agreement with Province to use CRU & SOA funding for this project.
Property remains in City’s Ownership.
Management by MES with support from MHA?.
OPERATIONAL
Tenants pay in accordance with income.
Those cannot afford the full cost register with CofCT Rental Indigency Scheme and pay in accordance with these rules.
This operational subsidy to meet the management cost shortfall.
Exact amount is about R900 per Room per Month based on the Economic Cost Recovery Rental.

11. CHALLENGES:
Pressure from Politian's to deliver many Transitional Housing Projects simultaneously.
Loose Definition & Understanding of Transitional Housing.
Lack of Policy Guide for Transitional Housing.
Challenges from Rights Groups for their different reasons.
Suitable & Defined Funding Source for the Capital Costs.
Suitable Funding Source for the Operational Costs.
Shortage of Suitable Management Agencies.
Shortage of land/buildings for more transitional housing projects.

12. POSETIVES:
Our first Transitional Housing Project is under Construction and we will be able to learn from it fro future projects.
This project presents us with an opportunity to respond and deal with the challenges mentioned in the previous slide (Challenges).
We have developed a Format for Feasibility aspects and detailed designs for Transitional Housing.
DAG/NASHO have developed a Profiling Format which immense value to the project.
This project has assisted us to learn how to avoid the Re-Zoning delays.
There is general consensus about the need for Transitional Housing located in the inner City.

13. PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
Sketch plan prepared and preliminary costing Phase 1
42 Rooms and 85 Beds with shared communal facilities
Different room sizes for different household configuration
Security controlled entrance
Details in feasibility
Sketch Design
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14. Existing buildings

15. PLANS FOR THE LOW INCOME HOUSING