How can NaHSLI help you?
Contact the HDA
NaHSLI can support provinces and municipalities by serving as a resource to
HEAD OFFICE
Johannesburg
Block A, Riviera Office Park,
6-10 Riviera Road,
Killarney, Johannesburg, 2193
PO Box 3209, Houghton,
South Africa, 2041
Phone: (011) 544 1000
Fax: (011) 544 1006/7
guide decision on land with regards to:
• Choice
• Governance
• Sustainability
NaHSLI also provides answers to the following:
o Who owns the land?
o What is the extent of the land?
o Where is the vacant land? [See Figure below]
o What is the value of the land?
o What is the land used for?
o Where are the wetlands, mine dumps and protected areas?
o Does the land have access to basic services such as water, electricity, refuse removal
and sanitation?
o Is the land in close proximity to amenities such as schools, clinics and shopping centres?
PROJECT OFFICES
Cape Town
129 Bree Street, Cape Town
PO Box 15402, Vlaeberg,
Cape Town, South Africa, 8018
Phone: (021) 481 2900
Fax: (021) 481 2913
Port Elizabeth
5th Floor, Fairview House,
Fairview Office Park,
66 Ring Road, Greenacres,
Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 6501
Phone: (041) 393 2600
Fax: (041) 393 2614
REGIONAL OFFICES
Polokwane
Limpopo Provincial Government
Department of Co-operative Governance
Human Settlements & Traditional Affairs,
20 Rabe Street, Polokwane
Private Bag X9485, Polokwane
South Africa, 0700
Phone: +27 15 284 5000
Fax: +27 15 293 1520
Bloemfontein
97 Henry Street, Westdene
Bloemfontein 9300
PO Box 3220, Bloemfontein
South Africa, 9300
Fax: +27 86 248 5640
Cell: +27 72 404 9991
Accelerating the development of sustainable human settlements through land assembly,
building and property acquisitions, and project management and support services
Website: www.thehda.co.za
Feel free to drop us an e-mail at [email protected] to profile your land through NaHSLI.
Identifying and Monitoring vacant land
AN AGENCY OF THE NATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
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Why NaHSLI?
What is NaHSLI?
Apartheid-era human settlement planning and management has produced a complex
The Housing Development Agency (HDA) is developing the National Human Settlements Land
set of spatial and physical problems resulting in the inefficient functioning of urban
Indices (NaHSLI) which is an executive analytical tool to facilitate and guide the formulation
areas. While much progress has been made in reversing the tide of poverty and
of planning alternatives that optimise utilisation of scarce resources and reduce the negative
homelessness since 1994 there remains a long journey ahead, with a national backlog
impact of land and property development on the environment.
Objectives of NaHSLI
of over 2 million housing units and compelling evidence that structural poverty, a key
apartheid legacy, is deepening.
The overall aim of NaHSLI is to provide a scale overview of the contextual factors
that impact the creation of sustainable human settlements by answering the
The acquisition of well-located or habitable state-owned land for human settlements
following questions:
has proved to be complex. A range of factors have resulted in the chronic failure
•
to acquire well located or habitable state owned land to develop sustainable human
• Where is available land?
settlements. This challenge is compounded by the fact that no one knows who owns
• Where is accessible land?
the land or who has rights to it AND no-one knows where the land is.
• Where is livelihood land?
Where is suitable land?
• Where is well-located or habitable land?
With the strong emphasis now on transforming spatial arrangements and spatial
governance, a renewed effort is needed to ensure that national, provincial and local
The strategic vision for NaHSLI is for it to be used by all units of government and the general
government work together in reshaping the built environment to achieve integrated
public to provide the textual and visual spatial information, as well as the results of spatial
and sustainable human settlements.
analysis, to aid discussions and deliberations in the planning process.
How we use NaHSLI?
NaHSLI’s framework consists of four principles, namely Natural Environment, Regulatory
NaHSLI encompasses land and property details, ownership and transaction details,
Environment, Structural Environment and Social Environment. These are interrelated
administrative boundaries; topographic data in the form of slope, geotechnical, transport
and co-dependent and build on the aim of supporting sustainable settlements through
network and location of services and utilities; land use data and thematic data.
identifying Suitable, Available, Accessible and Livelihood land and ultimately deciding
whether land is HABITABLE.
Using NaHSLI ensures the following
Conceptual Framework of the National Human Settlements Land Indices (NaHSLI)
Ecological Infrastructure and
Biodiversity Assets Index
Land Use Index
Land Functunality Index
Land Sustenance Index
Land Viability Index
Land Network Index
Social Environment
Land Capability
Index
Land Value Index
Structural Environment
Environmental Risk
Index
Land Tenure Index
Regulatory Environment
Spatial distribution of state land in South Africa.
Natural Environment
Geotechnical
Hazard Index
outcomes:
• Rapid identification, analyses and
prioritisation of land
• Demarcation of risk-prone areas and
identification of ecologically sensitive
areas
• Information as to where integrated
Climate Change
Adaptation Index
human settlements are best located
• Information as to the development
Land Sustainability Index, LSUi=
Geotechnical Hazard Index
+ Environmental Risk Index
+ Land Capacity Index
+ Ecological Infrastructure and
Biodiversity Assets Index
+ Climate Change Adaptation Index
Land Availability Index, LAVi=
Land Tenure Index
+ Land Value Index
+ Land Use Index
Land Accessibility Index, LACi=
Land Functionality Index
+ Land Viability Index
Land Livelihood Index, LLIi=
Land Sustenance Index
+ Land Network Index
potential of the land
• Leveraging of resources and coordination
of our interventions at different levels
• Support of city-led planning and
development that contributes to spatial
Habitable Land Index, HLAi=LSUi+LAVi+LACi+LLIi
transformation
Author: [email protected]
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