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COMPANY HOUSING ASSISTANCE SCHEMES - A REJOINDER PLANACT Morkel provides a useful overview of the various approaches and rationales that are increasingly encouraging private sector employers to become involved in the provision of housing to their black employees. While there are significant areas of agreement in general, certain assumptions need to be challenged, and others need to be more fully drawn out. It is commonly accepted that South Africa currently faces a housing problem that is best described as a crisis. To tackle this backlog an estimated 400 000 units need to be constructed annually for the foreseeable future. This situation continues to worsen, as the combined efforts of the public and private sector are only managing to supply approximately 11 per cent of the backlog each year. In examining the role of the private sector in general, and company housing schemes in particular, Morkel observes that: Gone are the days when the public sector was the dominant provider of housing for low income communities. Today the burden of responsibility for housing the nation has shifted squarely onto the shoulders of the private sector (both formal and informal), the employer and the individual himself. Morkel is right to point
Urban Forum – Springer Journals
Published: Apr 3, 2009
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