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  2006/03/17 Business Day, 13 March 2006 - Banks worry over slow delivery of housing
Business Day, 13 March 2006 - Banks worry over slow delivery of housing - Property Correspondent ONE of the major challenges facing SA is how to make the low-cost housing market attractive to developers. At the moment developers tend to shy away from this sector because of nonexistent or low profits. The problem has been highlighted by the Banking Association of SA, which commissioned an independent research study into the country’s housing supply problems.
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  2006/03/17 Business Day, 16 March 2006 - Banks urge state to share the risk
Business Day, 16 March 2006 - Banks urge state to share the risk - Nick Wilson, Property Correspondent THE Banking Association of SA said yesterday that without government’s willingness to share noncommercial risks, banks would be restricted to a target of R30bn worth of finance to low-income earners over five years. Jopie van Honschooten, who heads the association’s housing initiative, said if government agreed to share noncommercial risk with the industry, it could target delivery of R42bn worth of finance.
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  2006/03/17 Business Report, 10 March 2006 - Slow housing delivery is a worry for banks
Business Report, 10 March 2006 - Slow housing delivery is a worry for banks - By Roy Cokayne Pretoria - Local authorities have been blamed for the slow pace of housingdelivery, particularly affordable housing for lower-income groups. This has become a serious threat to the commitment by the banking sector in thefinancial services charter to provide R42 billion to finance low-cost housing by 2008.
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  2006/03/17 Business Report, 14 March 2006 - Housing minister commissions review of legislation
Business Report, 14 March 2006 - Housing minister commissions review of legislation - By Roy Cokayne Pretoria - Housing minister Lindiwe Sisulu has commissioned an urgent review of existing legislation that could negatively affect affordable housing delivery. Ndivhuwo wa ha Mabaya, a spokesperson for the national housing department, said last week that the review was aimed at assessing all legislation in place and how it affected housing delivery.
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  2006/03/17 Business Report, 16 March 2006 - Contract for housing may get support from laws
Business Report, 16 March 2006 - Contract for housing may get support from laws - By Roy Cokayne Johannesburg - Legislation will probably be introduced to cover certain aspects of the social contract for rapid housing delivery in South Africa. This was confirmed yesterday by Thozamile Botha, the adviser to housing minister Lindiwe Sisulu, at a plenary session on the social contract, which was signed at the National Housing Indaba in Cape Town in September.
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  2006/03/16 Business Day, 26 September 2005 - State commits to jack up housing delivery
Business Day, 26 September 2005 - State commits to jack up housing delivery - Political Correspondent CAPE TOWN — Government has committed itself to reducing the time taken to process housing-development approvals by as much as 50%. This will significantly cut the costs for developers, according to a contract signed last week.
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  2006/03/16 Business Day, 8 March 2006 - Banks say housing shortage, risk stand in way
Business Day, 8 March 2006 - Banks say housing shortage, risk stand in way - A MASSIVE shortage of low-cost housing and a dilemma on how to share the risk were standing in the way of banks fulfilling their commitments under the financial sector charter to provide R42bn in financing for new low-cost housing before the end of 2008, the Banking Association of SA said yesterday.
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  2006/03/16 Final Report - Research into Housing Supply and Functioning Markets: Research Findings and Conclusions
Summary report on the current dynamics and factors influencing the supply and demand for new and existing housing in the ‘affordable housing market’ (with a mortgageable value of less than R180 000 and targeting people with an income of between R2500 and R7500 per month)
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  2006/03/16 Report 1 - Housing Supply and Functioning Markets Resource - Scoping Housing Supply
The first of seven subsidiary reports supporting the findings presented in "Research into Housing Supply and Functioning Markets". This report covers the aspects of township establishment, current cadastral data, new housing delivery, and housing transactions
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  2006/03/16 Report 2 - Housing Supply and Functioning Markets Resource - Survey of Home Builders
The second of seven subsidiary reports supporting the findings presented in "Research into Housing Supply and Functioning Markets". This report presents the findings of a survey of homebuilders registered with the NHBRC between August 2003 and 2005.
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  2006/03/16 Report 3 - Housing Supply and Functioning Markets Resource - Land Availability
The third of seven subsidiary reports supporting the findings presented in "Research into Housing Supply and Functioning Markets". This report analyses the supply of land and housing for the affordable housing market, including whether adequate land is being identified for release and development in the integrated development planning (IDP) process, whether land for affordable housing development is bveing proclaimed by the surveyor general, and the extent to which land identified through the IDP process and proclaimed is finally registered in the name of a beneficiary at a deeds registry.
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  2006/03/16 Report 4 - Housing Supply and Functioning Markets Resource - The Housing Model
The fourth of seven subsidiary reports supporting the findings presented in "Research into Housing Supply and Functioning Markets". This report sets out the conceptual model of the affordable housing marekt that was developed for this study
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  2006/03/16 Report 5 - Housing Supply and Functioning Markets Resource - Township Development and the Home Building Process
The fififth of seven subsidiary reports supporting the findings presented in "Research into Housing Supply and Functioning Markets". This report analyses the key constraints on new residential development in the affordable housing market.
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  2006/03/16 Report 6 - Housing Supply and Functioning Markets Resource - Public Sector Owned Stock
The sixth of seven subsidiary reports supporting the findings presented in "Research into Housing Supply and Functioning Markets". This report analyses the transfer of state owned stock by public authorities (provincial or local governments), and the potential significance of this supply for the affordable housing market
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  2006/03/16 Report 7 - Housing Supply and Functioning Markets Resource - Secondary Markets
The last of seven subsidiary reports supporting the findings presented in "Research into Housing Supply and Functioning Markets". This report addressed current residential resale market constraints in the affordable housing market
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