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HARARE City Council has only managed to allocate 56 housing stands in five months while its housing waiting list continues to rise.
This has resulted in land barons taking advantage of desperate home-seekers.
Speaking during the presentation at the end of the first quarter report, Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume, said they had managed to allocate just 56 stands. “We managed to allocate only 56 stands since January and this is sad as the housing waiting list is standing at 11 282 active members as at December 31, 2022,” he said.
“The city is finalising the human settlement policy which is coming as a review to the current housing policy. “We will then unveil the new housing models that the city will implement going forward particularly as we seek to address the outstanding issues in the pay schemes that are operational in Harare.
“Going forward the city will not allocate unserviced land because this has created a lot of problems and has promoted the mushrooming of illegal settlements.”
The report also covered issues to do with waste management which Mafume said remained a major challenge. “This is largely due to low fleet availability and the inherent littering that is the culture of some residents of Harare,” he said
Mathew Masinge
Online Reporter