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Bulawayo City Council to avail housing stands
14 Aug 2015 at 15:23hrs | Views
THE Bulawayo City Council has announced plans to avail up to 5,000 housing stands before the end of the year under the pre-sale scheme as it moves to tame the ballooning housing waiting list.
More than 100,000 home seekers are on the city's housing waiting list with the local authority citing capacity constraints in the wake of subdued revenue inflows for failure to provide stands.
According to the council's latest minutes, the local authority has approved the purchase of earth moving equipment worth about $5 million to be deployed towards servicing of stands.
The Director of Engineering Services, Simela Dube, reported that council bought one bulldozer, two graders, two tippers, two rollers, two pneumatic rollers, two compressors, one excavator and four bowsers. Of the four water bowsers, two had arrived.
He said there was a need to employ more workers to utilise the new equipment.
Bulawayo has been mandated to provide 15,000 housing units/stands by year 2018 under the government's development blue-print, Zim-Asset.
The city council adopted the pre-sale approach, whereby home seekers finance the servicing of their own stands before developing them.
More than 100,000 home seekers are on the city's housing waiting list with the local authority citing capacity constraints in the wake of subdued revenue inflows for failure to provide stands.
According to the council's latest minutes, the local authority has approved the purchase of earth moving equipment worth about $5 million to be deployed towards servicing of stands.
He said there was a need to employ more workers to utilise the new equipment.
Bulawayo has been mandated to provide 15,000 housing units/stands by year 2018 under the government's development blue-print, Zim-Asset.
The city council adopted the pre-sale approach, whereby home seekers finance the servicing of their own stands before developing them.
Source - chronicle
