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The SHRA provides a grant amount of R426 308.00 per social housing unit. This Grant is provided to qualifying projects and this financial assistance is given to the Social Housing Institutions (SHIβs) and the other Delivery Agents (ODAβs) through Institutional Investment Grants.
There are two ways in which you can partner with the SHRA. You could either become a Social Housing Institution (SHI) by applying for SHI accreditation. To learn more about the requirements for this process you can reach out to [email protected].
The other option of delivering a social housing project is by bringing a project to the SHRA as a private developer which we refer to as an Other Delivery Agent (ODA). See below details on how to obtain the project application pack in order to register your project on the pipeline for ODA Project Accreditation.
The channel for registering your project onto the SHRA pipeline;
β’ Step 1: Send an introductory email about the project you would like to register to our [email protected] email address.
β’ Step 2: You will then receive an acknowledgment letter and further instructions on what documents are required (i.e. BBBEE certificate, I.D. copies, Land Availability, etc), please populate and submit as per the instructions.
β’ Step 3: After you submit these documents, the SHRA will screen your submission and you will then be given a project application pack which contains our Quick Scan A,B and C tools for you to populate
o The QSA β as an SHI, you will not be required to populate
o The QSB β Technical viability of the projects
o The QSC β Financial viability of the project
β’ Step 4: Once these tools have been populated, then you will submit them to the same email address and then you will be successfully registered onto our pipeline and receive confirmation thereof, you will be allocated a project accreditation specialist that will assist with the facilitation of your project
Our Minimum investment Criteria (MIC) is as follows:
# PROJECT MINIMUM INVESTMENT CRITERIA
1 Land Availability
2 Confirmation of project location in gazetted Restructuring Zones
3 Confirmation of 20% Equity contributions (if you are an ODA, and not mandatory for SHIβs)
4 Provincial and Municipal Support
5 Project Delivery Model
6 Project Development Concept
7 Concept Designs and unit typologies. Minimum unit size of 30sqm (medium to high density development 80u/ha) must be inline with the gazetted Norms and Standards.
Visit our website and check out our resources centre that has SH Material available (see link below), thereβs quite a few materials that you can access from there, please download the following documents and familiarise yourself with them. From this link you will have access to legislative materials that governs the SHRA. https://www.shra.org.za/
1. Social Housing Act
2. Social Housing Regulations
3. Restructuring zones (RZ) gazettes β Crucial to see if your proposed project Is located within the RZ
4. Consolidated Capital Grant (CCG) Contracts
5. Information Videos
Our Project Accreditation is a 90-day process, however, it is important to note that this is dependent on the readiness of your project application.
Your project will follow the Accreditation and Project Application process captured below,
Once you are ready to submit a project, you may follow the steps above to have your project registered into the SHRA Project Pipeline. Email [email protected]
Training and other programmes;
Our Sector Development and Transformation Department (SD&T) provides training that gives prospects a more in depth look at Social Housing (from how to become an SHI/ODA, to how to package a social housing project). Please reach out to [email protected]
