The Department does not have a housing waiting list. The Department has a National Housing Needs Register (NHNR) which is an application that is designed to register households and individuals who have housing needs in South Africa.
a) The measures put in place to ensure that the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) houses are only given to qualifying South Africans are as follows:
- The housing allocation guidelines prescribes that the Provincial Departments must source beneficiaries from the National Housing Needs Register (NHNR)
- Rules that are built into the Housing Subsidy System (HSS) validate each subsidy application that is captured against the related policy rules.
- There is electronic validation built into the HSS that enables the searches of all household members against six external databases namely: Population Register, Unemployment Insurance Fund, National Housing Subsidy Database, Deeds, Persal and Government Employees Pension Fund to determine if a household qualifies for a housing subsidy.
b) 119 805 persons have received RDP houses in the past five years.
