Housing Minister Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele has welcomed the outcome of the pre-housing summit session held by housing MECs as part of the preparations for the national housing summit to be held in February next year. "The session was able to identify huddles obstructing housing delivery and came up with recommendations to address these obstacles," said Mthembi-Mahanyele.

Accelerating spending by Provincial Departments in support of government's economic and social policies was identified by the pre-summit session as one of the most critical areas that contribute immensely in improving quality of life of the people. Mthembi-Mahanyele has therefore promised to come up with measures to address incidents of under-spending by provinces in order to ensure that government's resources are channeled to the programmes that benefit the poor.

Obstacles identified by the MECs as partly responsible for under expenditure are in certain circumstances associated with: