The Informal Settlement Upgrading Affordable Housing Pilot Project is about to reduce the housing backlog by 113 houses as construction begins.
The houses will be constructed in Windhoek's Greenwell Matongo Extension 4.
The Chief Regional Officer of the Otjozondjupa Region, Agatha Mweti, has rubbished as false the claim that the council has not demarcated land to build houses since 2018.
At a media briefing, Mweti says the council is currently busy with informal settlement upgrades there.
Employees of the National Housing Enterprise (NHE) will embark on a legal strike on Friday following a wage negotiation deadlock.
The National Housing Enterprise (NHE) is currently constructing 65 houses at Gobabis, 50 at Omuthiya, 70 at Okahao, 33 at Tsandi, and 24 at Ondangwa.
The houses will be constructed predominantly through phase 2 of the NHE’s turnkey construction model (RFP) and are expected to cost N$75 million.
The construction of more than 300 houses at Extension 8, in Swakopmund's Matutura Residential Areas, which had been put on hold for five years due to a court dispute, will soon resume.
