Authority to speed up delivery of social housing projects By Edward West Share THE SOCIAL Housing Regulatory Authority wants to pull in the construction sector through proactive invitations to participate in empowerment deals to speed up the delivery of social housing projects, said SHRA chairperson Bathabile Dlamini. Writing in the 2020 State of the Social Housing Report, she said the construction sector had valuable expertise and experience to support the transformation drive, deliver at pace, and create and maintain jobs in the social housing sector, and a new social housing programme had been developed in the past year. “There is clear evidence that the social housing sector has huge potential to grow and is an important delivery mechanism, as it not only provides affordable rentals to low-income households, but facilitates urban regeneration and sustainability of local municipalities,” she said.