What are the reasons for development of settled habitation
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Human Settlement Development is responsible to facilitate, promote, co-ordinate and manage integrated human settlements, emergency housing, and upgrading of informal settlements within the province.
Functions:
The promotion and facilitation of integrated and sustainable social housing environments
The promotion of integrated and sustainable settlement post land restitution
The co-ordination and facilitation of settlement upgrading
The promotion and facilitation of settlement development
Assistance to Municipalities with housing in emergency situations
Social Housing Development
Social Housing Development aims to promote and facilitate social housing, which is a housing option for low-to-medium income persons that is provided by housing institutions, and may exclude immediate individual ownership. This component assists with the preparation of plans, business plans and identification of suitable land for such development.
It also liaises with and co-ordinates other departments and local governments, promotes integrated social housing development, and monitors and evaluates the status of social housing initiatives.
Settlements may include hamlets, villages, towns and cities. A settlement may have known historical properties such as the date or era in which it was first settled, or first settled by a particular people. ... Remains of settlements such as villages become much more common after the invention of agriculture.