The Namibian government identified housing as a priority area for HPPII and considers housing as both an enabler of economic growth and a tool for reducing poverty by creating sustainable communities. To achieve higher impact that will reduce the national housing backlog, a more innovative and collaborative partnership will be required to deliver affordable housing between the Public & Private Sector. The following actions will be carried out:

Built 20 000 Housing Units
The scope of this activity is to:
Deliver 20,000 housing units countrywide by the end of the Harambee period, through the following public and private stakeholders: National Housing Enterprise (NHE), Government Institutions Pension Fund GIPF), Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia, Ongos Valley, Regional Councils and Local Authorities and other private sector developers. Some of the sites where this activity is earmarked are not limited to:
● Windhoek
● Oshakati
● Walvis Bay

Mass Housing Development Programme
The scope of this activity is defined as
Cognisant of the ongoing legal cases, MURD seeks to finalise the completion and allocation of commenced-but-uncompleted houses under the Mass Housing Development Programme mainly in Windhoek, Swakopmund and Opuwo. Approximately 1000 houses are commenced but not completed and are at various stages of construction, completion and occupation pending the ongoing legal cases with the contractors. After their completion these houses should be allocated (Swakopmund (505 units), Otjomuise Ext 10, Windhoek (362 units) and Opuwo (24 units) and all other unallocated Mass Houses, by 2022.) to the men and women in uniform.

Urban Development Fund
The scope of this activity is to:
Establish an Urban Development Fund through bilateral cooperation with Development Partners to supplement funding for delivery of serviced land and housing, by 2022.

Rent Control Bill
In 2015, the Cabinet made a resolution (Cabinet Decision No. 1st SP/17.0215/001), that the government should introduce measures to regulate the rental market with a view to prevent the current exploitation of tenants by landlords. Thereafter, the Special Cabinet Committee on Land Related Matters (SCCLRM) directed the government to introduce measures through various resolutions targeted at regulating the rental market in order to prevent the exploitation of tenants by Landlords. The Rent Control Board mandate is to consolidate and amend the laws on the control of rent payable in respect of leased dwellings and the periods of notice with which lessors of business premises and dwellings shall comply. The Rent Control Board which is still not yet operational was appointed in November 2018 after Cabinet decided in 2015 to introduce measures to regulate the rental market to prevent the potential exploitation of tenants by landlords.
The scope of this activity is to:
Promulgate the Rent Control Bill by the end of 2021, to enable the operationalisation of Rent Control Board(s) and implementation of Rent Control measures.