About 25 emerging building contractors have staged a sit-in at the Cacadu District Municipality’s housing offices in Port Elizabethf due to a salary dispute.

Cape Town  Transnet’s property division, Propnet, is negotiating the sale of 127 noncore properties with a book value of R132m and a market value of about R211m to the national housing department.

Goverment’s proposal for 20% of new residential property developments to be set aside for low-cost housing has raised a number of questions and challenges for developers.

The Housing Department and the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) will jointly host Municipal Housing Indaba in Johannesburg tomorrow.