THE controversial roster system used to allocate housing projects in Nelson Mandela Bay has been replaced with a new database system.
The new system will allocate housing projects according to contractors’ experience, skills and gender.
The Housing Development Agency (HDA) believes scrapping the roster system, which had 400 housing contractors, will i mprove transparency in how the government and municipal projects are allocated.
In the new pre-approved database, 431 housing contractors qualified to be tasked with building RDP houses, while 741 failed to make the cut.
Of the 431, 164 are women-owned while 53 are owned by youth.
To meet the 70% threshold required to get municipal projects, contractors were scored according to their experience, capability and a commitment to employ local labour.
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