Overstrand Municipality’s housing waiting list verification and registration drive has started.
Residents in need of government subsidised housing will have the opportunity to complete waiting-list application forms as first-time applicants or verify or update details already on the system.
There are 13 923 applicants currently registered on the database, but information of many applicants may be incomplete or out-dated. The housing department often finds beneficiaries do not update their information with regard to changes in income, the number of financial dependants, change of address, and so on.
The income band for Finance Linked Individual Subsidy Programme (FLISP) has increased in July 2018 from R15 000 to R22 000 and it therefore creates an opportunity for more residents to register/verify their information.
“It is critical that the database we work from is as up to date and accurate as possible,” says Municipal Manager Dean O’Neill. The housing demand in the Overstrand is also placed on the provincial housing demand database.