The Department of Human Settlements (DHS) will require provinces and metropolitan municipalities to allocate at least 2% of their 2026/27 housing grants to innovative building technologies (IBTs), signalling a push to accelerate housing delivery and improve resilience in disaster-prone areas. Human Settlements Minister Thembi Simelane confirmed this during a briefing on January 21, which preceded the DHS’s hosting of the Innovative Building Technologies Summit from February 3 to 4, at Nasrec, in Gauteng.
