This nine-page policy brief analyses the progress made as part of government’s 2004 “Breaking New Ground” policy to accelerate access to quality housing throughout the country. In the document, PSAM looks at the impact of policy priorities on budgets as well as decreasing allocations to the paper’s provincial case study – the Eastern Cape.
The analysis uncovers that a number of factors are working against the Eastern Cape’s ability to deliver more housing, including a decreased provincial housing development grants and high staff turnover.
However, the paper does note that the province is among the country’s top performers in terms of percentage of houses (57%) that have been delivered to women.
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