Social housing is a powerful tool to integrate divided towns and cities by providing reasonable rental accommodation for low-and moderate-income working households. It can bring communities together in concentrated urban areas and revitalise run-down settlements where municipalities have gone bankrupt.
The introduction of the grant at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 increased the number of those getting financial assistance from the government to access decent accommodation to 29 million.
According to the Department of Human Settlements, the programme provides for grant funding to establish, capacitate
