Nearly 1 700 low-cost housing units will be constructed at Porta Farm in Zvimba district as part of transforming the once informal settlement into residential stands.
Porta Farm was turned into a settlement that housed families that had been displaced by Operation Murambatsvina.
Over the past 17 years, the illegal settlement had been turned into a haven of criminal activities.
As such, Zvimba East Veterans Investment Company (Zevic), a company wholly owned by veterans of the liberation struggle, has moved in to turn the sprawling illegal settlement into residential stands.
The company, whose projects have the blessings of the government, is facilitating the construction of 1 700 low cost housing units at the farm.
“Work has started and as a beneficiary, we are supposed to meet as stakeholders and agree to have the farm regularised,” said Rhodson Nyandoro, Porta Farm stakeholders’ board chairperson.
“This is a low-cost housing project that is being implemented here as part of efforts to complement the government’s housing delivery programme.”
Nyandoro said a stakeholders meeting to chart the way forward is scheduled for today in the afternoon at Porta.
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“We want to discuss a number of issues as beneficiaries so that we agree on certain things,” he said.
He said there has been a lot of false information which is deliberately intended to mislead people around the housing project, hence convening the meeting.
