Social Housing Act, 2008 (Act No. 16 of 2008) > Chapter 2 : Roles and Responsibilities > 5. Roles and responsibilities of municipalities

A municipality must, where there is a demand for social housing within its municipal area, as part of the municipality's process of integrated development planning, take all reasonable and necessary steps, within the national and provincial legislative, regulatory and policy framework—

(a)	to facilitate social housing delivery in its area of jurisdiction;

(b)	to encourage the development of new social housing stock and the upgrading of existing stock or the conversion of existing non-residential stock;

(c)	to provide access—

(i)	to land and buildings for social housing development in designated restructuring zones;

(ii)	for social housing institutions to acquire municipal rental stock;

(iii)

to municipal infrastructure and services for approved projects in designated restructuring zones; and

(d)	to the extent permitted under the Local Government: Municipal Finance Management Act, 2003 (Act No. 56 of 2003), and the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act No. 32 of 2000), to—

(i)	initiate and motivate the identification of restructuring zones; and

(ii)	enter into performance agreements with social housing institutions.