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nAmlBIA unlVERSITY
OF SCIEnCE Ano TECHnOLOGY
FACULTYOF ENGINEERINGAND SPATIALSCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTUREAND SPATIALSCIENCES
I QUALIFICATION
BACHELOR OF TOWN AND REGIONAL PLANNING
QUALIFICATION CODE: O7BTAR
LEVEL: 6
I CREDITS:10
COURSECODE: PNH610S
COURSENAME: PLANNING FOR HOUSING
DATE:JUNE 2022
DURATION: 3 HOURS
PAPER:THEORY
MARKS: 100
EXAMINER(S)
FIRSTOPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER
Ms. G.B van Rooi
gvanrooi@nust.na / 2072359
MODERATOR:
Mr. J. Korrubel
jkorrubel@nust.na
/ 2072683
NOTES
1. Answer ALLthe questions.
2. Answer your questions in legible handwriting.
3. Number the answers clearly.
The Question Paper consists of 7 pages (including this front page) and an Annexure.
PERMISSABLEMATERIAL: Black Ink Pen
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Question 1
(a) No Housing programme can be successfully devised without taking the Structure Plan of a
Local Authority into consideration.
Discuss why this is the case.
(5)
(b) Provide facts to support the importance of the Town Planning Scheme within any housing
provision programme or projects.
(5)
[10)
Question 2
The concept of social housing is made referred to in the Blueprint for Mass Housing Development as
well as in the National Housing Policy of 2009. Despite the favourable policy environment, Social
Housing however has not yet been implemented within Namibia, but other countries worldwide
have some form of social housing.
(a) What guidelines could you provide to ensure that the concept of Social Housing is
introduced in Namibia.
(5)
Danish architect Jan Gudmand-Hoyer's through his articles "The Missing Link between Utopia & the
Dated One-Family House" as well as "Children Should Have One Hundred Parents", essentially
argued in favour of co-housing as a viable housing solution.
(b) Provide an assessment of the co-housing experience in Ecovillage Ithaca.
(5)
[10)
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Question 3
PNH610S
2009/10N,1mibiJllnouseholdln<omeandEx~nditureSurvey
INCOMGEROUDPESIGNATION
(NIUES)
201S/16NHIES
Income
Deciles
J.10
¼ofovear llPopulation
15.9
Average
llouseh
oldSire
Average
Monthly
llousehold
Income
Aver.ige
Monthly
llousehold
Income
/lousing
A/fordobility
(max3. 0%of
income{/NS)
Affordoblc
Loan(7.5%
interesIt l0
years/{NS)
(N$)
(N$1
7.5
1,306
1,543
463
57,470
ULTRA-LOW
11·20 13.5
6.4
(MonthlyhouseholIdncomerange 21-30 12.3 62.4
5.8
N$0·5,000)
31•40 11
41-50 9.7
5.2
87.S
4.6
1,811
2,167
2,520
2,873
2,565
3,222
4,004
4,518
770
967
1,201
1,356
95,5S0
120,0.:0
149,0SO
16$,310
LOW
51-60 8.8
(Monthlyhouseholidncomerange 61•70 8.3 25.1
NS5,0001· 0,000I
71-80 s
0
3,43.:
5,441
1,632
201,5S0
3.9
4,276
6,8S7
2,057
255,340
3.8
6,063
8,250
l,475
307,lJO
MIDDLE
81-90 6.6
(MonthlhyouseholIdncomerange
NS10,000·20,000I
91·95 3.2
IIIGII
(MonthlhyouseholIdncomerange 96.93
NS20,000-J0,OOO)
ULTRIAIIGII
(MonthlyhousehoIldncomeabove 99·100
N$~0.000)
9.8
1.7
I.I
3.1
S,473 11,936
J,5S1
444,510
3
14,832 17,882
5,365
665,970
2.7
24,756 29,S89
8,S77 1,101,910
2.5
47,75S 67,337
20,201 1,507,590
Figure 1- Household categorisation - Source: Draft National Housing Policy (2022)
(a) Evaluate the statistics in Figure 1 and indicate how that would influence your township layout
design as well as the zonings and densities you would assign to the erven on your new
township planned for the ultra-low- and low-income category.
(5)
(b) Discussthe Namibian Housing Programme that would suit the ultra-low- and low-income
groups.
(5)
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Question 4
(a) What facts could you compile that relay the determinants of housing supply in Namibia? (5)
Statistics indicated that there is a notable mismatch in housing demand and supply in Namibia.
(b) What inferences can you draw that could explain that?
(5)
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Question 5
Annexure A contains Figure 2 which depicts the Samuel Maharero informal settlement in
Okuryangava, Windhoek
(a) Detail the processes that you as urban planner would engage to ensure that the Samuel
Maharero Informal settlement is upgraded. You may refer to the upgrading process of the
Onyika Informal Settlement Upgrade as discussed in class.
(5)
The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)s, tates that forced evictions are
"prima facie incompatible" with the right to adequate housing and other provisions in the Covenant.
It is however highly likely that there are wilful land invaders resident in Samuel Maharero, that are
not truly in need of land but are settled there for nefarious reasons.
(b) In which circumstances would you as a planner support the eviction of the disingenuous
informal settlers of Samuel Maharero?
(5)
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Question 6
Informal settlements are commonplace throughout Namibia. Housing Conditions within these
informal settlements are deplorable.
(a) Discuss why the housing within these precarious settlements cannot be regarded as
adequate.
(10)
New Urbanism is touted as the answer to a myriad of urban problems. Housing is but one such issue
it touches on. As an urban planner you must take heed of what the New Urbanists preach and on the
other hand you are also called on to implement the Adequate Housing Guidelines, which does not
entirely comply with New Urbanist principles.
(b) Provide an indication ofthe aspects of New Urbanism that is not covered within the
Adequate Housing Guidelines.
(2)
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Question 7
(a) What legal mandate does the Regional and Local Authorities have with respect to the
provision of housing?
(3)
(b) What is the relationship between the Sectional Title Act and the Rents Ordinance 13
of 1977?
(2)
(c) How would you integrate the Flexible Land Tenure Act, (Act No.4 of 2012) (FLTS) into an
informal settlement upgrading project?
(5)
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Question 8
The impact of buildings on environment was listed by Garnot (2008); It was determined that
buildings:
• Generate 40% of greenhouse gas emissions
• Use 32% of world's resources
• Consume 12% of water
• Make up 40% of waste to landfill
(a) How would the pursuit of green building aide in reducing the adverse environmental
impact of the built environment?
(7)
The Namibian Mass housing Programme originally envisaged the delivery of 185 000 housing units.
This would surely worsen the quality of the natural environment, and green housing seems like the
logical answer to counter that.
(b) What are the arguments that could be brought to the fore to suppress the inclusion of
green building principles in the Mass Housing Programme?
(3)
[10)
Question 9
It could be hypothesised that for a country to be stable and to offer a basis for economic activity and
development, fundamental investments in the housing sector must be made.
(a) Discussthe tenets that may prove such hypothesis true.
(5)
(b) What professional advice would you as urban planner give to reduce the cost of housing? (5)
[10)
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Question 10
a) Interpret the following statement: "Housing is both a noun and a verb".
(3)
"Ford fixed in our minds the reciprocal concepts of mass production and mass consumption" (Rowe,
1993:9) This doctrine influenced public housing development throughout the world. Such modernist
housing development is depicted in Figure 3.
b) How would you evaluate the housing project depicted in Figure 3?
(5)
"QuartierModernesFruges"P, essacL, eCorbusie(r1923)
Figure 3
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ANNEXURE A: THE SAMUEL MAHARERO INFORMAL SETTLEMENT, OKURYANGAVA, WINDHOEK.
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