Namibia: Swakopmund Braces for Mass Housing

26 March 2014

Walvis Bay — The coastal town of Swakopmund is preparing itself for the mass housing development programme expected to kick off in the town's Democratic Resettlement community (DRC) informal settlement on its outskirts.

The tourist town expects to construct not less than 3 024 houses in the informal settlement, whose residents eagerly await the construction of long-awaited homes and proper municipal services. The town has also indicated that it is ready to make land available for the construction of at least 3000 houses. DRC is a sprawling informal settlement of matchbox shacks, built with corrugated iron sheets and other materials, which thousands of poor people in Swakopmund and from elsewhere in the country have made their home and its populations is now estimated to be around 20 000.

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