Background:

The National Department of Housing has introduced the Housing Chapters of IDP's guidelines for the development of housing plans in the integrated development planning process and suggests an approach to the formulation of Housing Chapters of Municipal IDP's.  The Housing Chapter of Municipal IDP's must be considerably enhanced to include municipal housing needs assessment, the identification, surveying and prioritisation of informal settlements, the identification of well located land for housing, the identification of areas for densification, the linkages between housing and urban renewal and the integration of housing, planning and transportation frameworks.

The Resource Book on Housing Chapters for Sustainable Human Settlement has been approved by the Director General on February 2008.

The objective of the Resource Book is to provide a practical resource to support the undertaking of planning for housing delivery within the Framework of Sustainable Human Settlement.

The complete book, ready for printing is available here:
(Please note that due to the size of downloadable files, the book has been separated into three parts.)

• Part One (The front cover of the book)
• Part Two (The inner pages of the book, i.e. the actual content)
• Part Three (The dividers of the chapters within the book)