The leader of the delegation informed the meeting that the Committee received a complaint from the Amalinda Housing Co-operative in 2010. The provincial department and the Buffalo City Municipality were assigned to assist the co-operative and resolve the challenges encountered. The Committee observed that the national department did not take the development of the co-operative seriously, and therefore no policy was dedicated to it. The national department placed the co-operatives under social housing, of which these two have different principles. The Committee raised concerns over this arrangement because the principles of co- operatives are different from the principles of social housing.