The Municipality of Walvis Bay has commenced the process of selling the remaining unoccupied 70 houses constructed through the Massive Urban Land Servicing Programme several years ago.
The houses, as per the directive from the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development (MURD), will be allocated and sold on a first-come, first-serve basis, to beneficiaries selected from a combined waiting list of the Walvis Bay Municipality and National Housing Enterprise from 2016.
At a media briefing on Friday, Walvis Bay Mayor Trevino Forbes said an additional number of Walvis Bay Municipality employees who are on the aforementioned waiting lists and qualifying, will benefit when it is their legitimate turn in the order of the waiting list.
“Housing has been one of the major issues we have been tackling since coming into office and we had to amend the land sale policy to specifically give opportunities to fist time property owners and residents of Walvis Bay,” Forbes told the media.
To date, 21 applicants have been approved and waiting to receive completion certificates, 15 are still pending as they are currently busy with interviews, while 32 have been declined as per instruction from their financial institutions and 2 were duplicates.
The mayor noted that the committee will re-allocate the remaining 34 houses to the next qualifying clients on the waiting list.
Forbes further added that in order to ensure the availability of land in the town, the municipality has applied for boundary expansion, which according to him, will cater for more land and address the housing needs.
“We are running out of land in Walvis Bay and we need to make other plans therefore, the Acting Chief Executive Officer and I had two meetings in Windhoek with the MURD to discuss this matter and Council is awaiting ministerial approval,” he said.
Additionally, the council has budgeted N.dollars 28 million for the financial year 2022/23, the development of a portion in Naraville Extension 8 which will include a new, much-needed cemetery as well as about 100 single residential erven
Source: The Namibian Press Agency
