HARARE City Council (HCC) has only managed to allocate 56 housing stands in five months while its housing waiting list is ballooning, resulting in land barons taking advantage of desperate home-seekers.
“We managed to allocate only 56 stands since January and
this is sad as the housing waiting list is standing at 11 282 active members as
at December 31, 2022,” mayor Jacob Mafume said in his first quarter report on
Wednesday.
“The city is
finalising the human settlement policy which is coming as a review to the
current housing policy.
“We will then unveil the new housing models that the city
will implement going forward particularly as we seek to address the outstanding
issues in the pay schemes that are operational in Harare.”
He added: “Going forward the city will not allocate
unserviced land because this has created a lot of problems and has promoted the
mushrooming of illegal settlements.”
The report also covered issues to do with waste management
which Mafume said remained a major challenge.
“This is largely due to low fleet availability and the
inherent littering that is the culture of some residents of Harare,” he said
Mafume said the health sector in the capital was under the
spotlight, adding that the council had been recording an average of 1 500
deliveries per month at polyclinics despite a shortage of facilities. Newsday
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