The Commission welcomes new grant allocations to fast track bucket eradication and the delivery of quality human settlements in mining towns though these have been funded through reductions in HSDG and USDG. In its submission the Commission indicated key issues to be considered emanating for the introduction of these new human settlements grants were, namely, that old and still relevant priorities should not be replaced with new ones, that the downward revision in allocations for the human settlement development grant does not negatively affects existing projects in the programme especially given that previous studies by the Commission found that the scale of funding for human settlements does not match existing housing demand. Furthermore, there is a need to ensure that capacity exists to ensure that better work will be done with appropriate grant frameworks and that interventions in delivery human settlements in mining communities must respond to individual household circumstances.