Cape Town City Council approves R5 million for emergency housing

building kits to residents when required, without first applying for official disaster funding. This meant immediate help for fire and flood victims. Accessing national disaster funding is a lengthy process, often leaving victims without assistance for many months on end.

When the City’s grant funding conditions were changed, the approximately R35 million it had been budgeting per year at that time to assist, fell away. The City continued its call for the National Government to again look at grant funding to assist provincial governments and municipalities with this mounting task of rapid emergency assistance. We are thus pleased that we are able to make provision for this allocation in the January 2023 Adjustments Budget.

City teams are utterly dedicated to providing relief to fire and flood-affected residents within what is possible. Every instance of fire is assessed and a specific approach is developed as all instances will have unique circumstances. The City enables and facilitates soft relief, such as donations as well as much work on-site clearing and the reinstatement of services, verification and assessments for assistance.

In older, long-existing City-supplied informal settlements, where it has been possible to do, almost 100% of the settlements are electrified. Due to the growth of informality over the past decade, budget requirements have increased severely as incidents requiring fire and flood response have shot up. Most of the newly formed settlements over the past three years have been formed in areas absolutely prone to fires and floods due to the terrain and also the density of settlements.

“We look forward to working together with all stakeholders to enhance our emergency response in a feasible and well-defined manner. We call on National Government to avail funds to help with the growing need for emergency response outside of a declared disaster,” says the City Council.

Source: Real Estate Daily Report (realestatedailyreport.net)

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