Housing and Urban Development
The funds exist at different levels of government to finance house-building for most SA families in need.
   What the present government cannot achieve is to institute, coordinate, manage and implement an overall scheme of infrastructure, planning, building and hand-over of housing units to all needy families, after which service fees be properly billed and paid for by residents.
   The SABP has experience in this field, having built, connected and payment-monitored over 1500 permanent affordable housing units of superior quality throughout Soweto and Seshego (Polokwane) over a period of some 4 years.
   This capability will be replicated to thousands of local situations throughout South Africa when the SABP comes to power, effectively sorting out the housing backlog in a matter of 6 to 7 years.
   This process will create about 900 000 new jobs and will propel our country into a new era of unprecedented economic activity involving, contractors, workers, suppliers, etc. We estimate that some 600 000 of these jobs have the potential of remaining indefinitely as a part of a structural change in the country's industrial mix.
   The end-result of properly housed people will also go a long way to helping workers and potential workers to be better equipped materially and emotionally to seek and secure work.
   The SABP has a hands-on approach when tackling practical issues and it will work within the various socio-economic contexts around the country to bring about actual and overall change for the economic benefit of all.
   Every problem has a solution; the problem is not doing anything about it; the SABP has a track record of solving real socio-economic problems.
   One example is the housing achievement mentioned above.
   Another example has been the Members of the SABP national executive influencing the Soweto City Council in person to change their policy on granting ownership certificates to the people in 1987. The Members resolved an impasse which resulted in tens of thousands of Soweto residents being able to continue purchasing their houses from the council. At that time we had petitions of many thousands of signatures from Soweto residents with a support base of some 20000 people from the whole of Soweto, from Emdeni to Diepkloof and from Meadowlands to Klipspruit.
   Housing sizes provided / promoted by government should be relative to the size of the applicant's bona-fide family. This will help to prevent overcrowding. Housing standards in SA should include the principle that residential bedrooms should not accommodate more than 2 children at a time - this will provide for better psycho-social development and protection of children.
   SA needs a properly orchestrated approach to the entire issue of property / home waiting-lists, acquisition, ownership, building, servicing, maintenance, financing, payment, subsidising, etc, such that the end result is proper housing for all. This can be done but it requires an ability to plan, organise and execute, heretofore unseen in government circles. We believe we can do it. So far in South African history, no-one has gotten this issue right. Give the SABP a chance. Support the SABP and help us sort the thorny issue of housing out together.
   All disadvantaged families without proper housing will be given a real opportunity to acquire proper housing.