This interview was taken during the Africa Urban Infrastructure Summit in April 2013.  

When the President announced the new FLISP (Finance Linked Individual Subsidy Programme) in his 2012 State of the Nation Address, the groundswell of interest and enthusiasm for this subsidy was not anticipated. Since then, this website has been inundated with requests for information, people asking whether they qualify and for how much, arguing that they are in that “gap” market, too rich to qualify for the RDP subsidy, and too poor to afford the cheapest newly built house available on the market. While the FLISP subsidy has already helped some people – the President announced in this year’s State of…

Last week, Mark Napier of Urban LandMark and I submitted a letter to the Business Day, commenting on two letters that had been debating the value of RDP housing and title deeds.  Here is the full text of the letter.  The edited version of the letter as it appeared in the newspaper can be downloaded here.   Letter to the Business Day, 5 July 2012 Sir Gail Daus-van Wyk and Keith Gottschalk have both written about the value of title deeds for RDP home owners, responding to the article by Stephen Grootes on the land reform debate. Certainly, subsidized housing…