Abstract
Since the end of apartheid, the African National Congress-led government has utilised many resources in order to build three million low cost houses for poor families. Very few countries have been able to accomplish this goal. There is evidence to prove that the present housing approaches are not able to meet the set-out objectives. The challenges militating against the delivery of this mandate includes flawed policies, an expanding housing backlog, budgetary allocations, an inefficient public service and corruption. Presently, human settlement in South Africa has had a change in standard to a maintainable methodology. The position of this study is to assess this change in the standard of human settlement in terms of the UN Habitat Agenda, Millennium Development Goals, Breaking New Ground strategy and the National Development Plan, particularly concerning the production of sustainable integrated human settlements...
M.Com. (Public Management and Governance)