Plans to make housing accessible to the ‘missing middle’ gain pace
Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu’s programme to avail housing opportunities to the so-called "missing middle" — South Africans who earn too much to qualify for subsidised housing and too little to get approved to buy a house on their own — has gained traction. This is according to Human Settlements director-general Mbulelo Tshangana, who was speaking to reporters during a briefing on the progress made by the social cluster of government departments, on meeting the goals of the National Development Plan by 2030. He said the Department of Human Settlements recently approved the policy on the "missing middle", along with funding adjustments to the social housing programme under which it falls, in order to improve performance. "The adjustments to the programme include the shift in the income bands, which raises the lower qualifying household income limit for the primary social housing market from R3,500 to R5,500 per month and the upper qualifying household income limit from R7...
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