By Cindy Witten
07 November 2008
The Independent Democrats (ID) have implored of Provincial Housing MEC Whitey Jacobs to blacklist all those who have illegally sold or leased their government subsidised houses, making it impossible for them to receive houses from government in the future.
This request comes after receiving numerous complaints from residents who claim that their land lords are charging them exorbitant rental fees.
The ID’s Rodney Lentit says that those guilty should be blacklisted so that they do not receive homes from the government again.
“We in the ID have received many complaints and affidavits from people renting some of these homes, who are often forced to pay high rental by these unscrupulous land lords. Once we have compiled a full audit, we will hand it over to the minister,” said Lentit.
Such incidents have taken place, for example, in the Delft area, where the Minister delivered letters to people who have either sold or rented their RDP houses, evicting them from the property for abusing the system.
“The ID calls on MEC Jacobs to consider implementing a proposal by municipalities where the ID is in government in the Western Cape that houses being rented out in this way are transferred to the tenant in cases where that tenant is on a waiting list and qualifies for a subsidy”
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When a person gets a national housing subsidy their details are entered into the National Housing Subsidy Database and will not qualify for a subsidy again. This also applies to their spouse/partner. Even if they divorce and marry again they with their new spouse will not qualify again. If they apply for a subsidy their details are first checked against the National Housing Subsidy Database.
Legislation already exists for Provinces to repossess house "sold" or occupied by other than the beneficiaries. Trouble is that these houses are not periodically monitored to see who is in them. Existing tenants should not be permitted to buy. The houses should be repossessed and reallocated to the next applicant on the waiting list otherwise they will be jumping the queue.
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