The sector has a number of interventions in place in the drive to provide quality human settlements which include the delivery of 83 000 service sites for the informal settlement upgrading programme, 15 469 Rental Housing units built, eight municipalities accredited for the provision of housing programmes and over 100 000 loans have been facilitated through Housing Development Finance institutions. Priority areas for the sector in the medium term include the full accreditation of all metropolitan municipalities and the conclusion agreements with landholding government agencies on rapid transfers.