Housing projects stall

CASH-STRAPPED: BILLIONS OF RANDS AT RISK AS DEVELOPMENTS STOP → 52 grant-funded projects underway nationally, but many are 'blocked'.

- Sipho Mabena

DA supporters protest outside premier Panyaza Lesufi's Johannesburg office yesterday, calling for arrests and the return of the looted Tembisa Hospital R2 billion. The party's Gauteng health spokesperson, Jack Bloom, handed over a memorandum of demands

(Michel Bega)

Stalled social housing projects nationally have left thousands of beneficiaries in limbo as costs spiral, contracts collapse and contractors fail.

The state's efforts to deliver affordable housing are grinding to a halt as multiple social housing projects across the country stall amid contractor failures, financial shortfalls and governance shortcomings.

According to the Social Housing Regulatory Authority (SHRA), at least 10 major developments, from Midrand in Gauteng to Secunda in Mpumalanga, Kimberley in the Northern Cape to Newcastle in KwaZulu-Natal, have come to a halt and billions of rands are at risk.