ELECTION 2019: Housing, urbanisation and urban development

ALL PEOPLE'S PARTY (APP) • Do away with all informal areas.• Build apartments and other affordable housing. • N$2 billion annually for housing with minimum targets for number of plots serviced and houses built. • Create a national building society for officials and low-income groups. • Reform and streamline the National Housing Enterprise (NHE). • Use affordable, local building materials. • Strict rent control. • Support beautification and cleaning of all villages. • Write off all municipal debt for a “new start”. • Develop and modernise rural areas. CONGRESS OF DEMOCRATS (CoD) • Redistribute urban land so that everyone has a plot. • One-off grant to everyone to purchase a plot. LANDLESS PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT (LPM) • Humane and dignified housing for everyone. • Invest N$200 million in housing at Aussenkehr and initiate a public-private partnership (PPP) to develop the settlement. • Accelerate the upgrading of informal settlements. • Title deeds to all so-called “illegal squatters” within 100 days. • More flexible occupancy and ownership rights in urban areas. • Prohibition of excessive house prices and speculation. • State subsidies to first-time buyers. • Higher taxes on and expropriation of unused plots. • Land scheme for food production in urban areas. • Investments in informal markets to bring goods and services closer to the people. • Mandatory cleaning campaigns. NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY (NDP) • Title deeds to homeowners with state subsidies. • Rental and home purchase subsidies. • Home loans limited to 10 years. • Prohibition on repossession of a home if 50% of the loan has been paid. NATIONAL UNITY DEMOCRATIC ORGANISATION (NUDO) • The right to housing is a basic human right that is linked with human dignity. • A decent home and serviced erven for every Namibian - no shacks.• Vouchers to purchase building materials. • Resettlement in urban areas. • Same facilities for rural and urban areas. POPULAR DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT (PDM) • The housing crisis impedes upliftment and health. • Mass social housing projects for tenants and young workers. • A home for every family by 2026.• One Namibian, one plot: An erf for every resident of informal settlements who is over 21 and earns less than N$4 500 per month. • Innovative housing schemes with private-sector credit and interest relief. • Home-loan guarantee fund and subsidies for first-time and low-income buyers. • Urban relocation scheme to quell land hunger. • Manufacturing projects for youth in all constituencies to tame urbanisation. RALLY FOR DEMOCRACY AND PROGRESS (RDP) • Replace all shacks with homes that meet UN standards and new national requirements. • The housing crisis promotes dehumanisation, crime, social decline, poor hygiene and pollution. • Unaffordable prices and BEE transactions contribute to problems. • Free plots for young, emerging families. • Drastic price cuts. • Subsidise building materials in urban and rural areas. • Prohibition on auctions. • Create a competent housing agency. • Pay subsidies directly to local authorities instead of government companies such as NHE, NamWater and NamPower. SWANU • New food and water resources in urban and rural areas. SWAPO • Address demand for land and housing more urgently and decisively. • Improve housing provision, especially for the needy and marginalised. • Over 12 000 homes built over the past five years - invest more than N$250 million over the next five years to build 6 000 homes. • Systematic improvement of informal settlements using minimum standards, in collaboration with the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia (SDFN) and the private sector. • Improved coordination at national, regional and local levels. • Provision of affordable plots and homes through the private sector.• More affordable financing options by banks. • Better housing for police officers, teachers and nurses. • SME development in urban and rural areas. • Better ICT in rural areas.

ELECTION 2019: Housing, urbanisation and urban development

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