North West Human Settlement on housing consumer education

• Published date: 10 May 2022
• Publication title: South African Official News

The North West Department of Human Settlements is in a process if intensifying housing consumer education as part of community empowerment programme across the province. The programme that has been carried out for several year, seeks to address the needs of communities as beneficiaries of human settlements development.

According to the Director for Stakeholder Engagement and Capacity Development, Ben Bole, the programme is intended to highlight the importance of housing maintenance to the affected beneficiaries. The programme will further impart more information on different housing products such as Financed Linked Individual Subsidy Programme (FLISPs), Tittle deed and Military veterans programme that will be presented before the broader communities during the envisaged interaction sessions.

'The programme will be rolled out in the current financial year going forward as one of the priorities of the department and it will kick start during this month until all envisaged areas...