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Municipal Reporter
Some local authorities have started parcelling out residential stands to meet the targets they were given by Government in line with the provisions for housing in the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation.
Under the Zim-Asset economic blueprint, it is envisaged that Government will provide 250 000 housing units to low-income earners.
Harare is supposed to deliver 105 935 housing units and residential stands, Midlands 56 582, Matabeleland North 28 772, Masvingo 20 269, Mashonaland West 23 819, Mashonaland Central 16 700, Bulawayo Urban 15 100, Matabeleland South 12 800 and Mashonaland East 11 776.

Mutare mayor Mr Tatenda Nhamarare yesterday said his council had started parcelling out stands to home-seekers at affordable prices.
“As we speak, in Dangamvura the stands are being sold at affordable prices with council developing the land,” he said.

“We also entered into land development partnership with the Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe, which has since completed developing the land and the stands would be sold any time from now.”

Mr Nhamarare said the beneficiaries would be drawn from the city’s housing waiting list and would pay monthly instalments for the residential stands.
Kadoma town clerk Mr Malvin Dondo said in a statement that the town was offering residential stands at Victory and Mushumavale Heights to residents on the waiting list.
Applicants should not have similar stand/properties within the Kadoma Town Council area.

Chitungwiza town clerk Mr George Makunde said the municipality would only be aware of the number of stands they would avail at the end of this week when the Urban Development Corporation presents a layout of Chitungwiza.

The Harare City Council has since indicated that it is still working on modalities to deliver 105 935 housing units by 2018 in fulfilment of the Government directive.
Addressing the education, health, housing and community services and licensing capacity building workshop in Nyanga recently, the city’s Corporate Services and Housing director Mrs Josephine Ncube said they would facilitate the delivery of the houses.

“We should provide the land, plan its use and facilitate access to that land,” she said. “We need to meet the target by 2018.”
Harare deputy mayor Clr Thomas Muzuva said the proposed 105 000 houses should be distributed equally among housing co-operatives, property developers, financial institutions and council.

“Those who fail to develop the houses in the first year should have their percentage reduced, while those who achieve their targets would be given additional land to build on,” he said.