1. Lack of clarity on the potential impact of the renaming on the mandate and the restructuring of the Department. 2. Failure by the Department to provide the Committee with the policy on farm workers accommodation results in the Committee no able to perform oversight on the implementation thereof. 3. Lack of integrated planning and coordination in the different spheres of government and across departments in housing delivery. 4. Significant increase in the expenditure allocated for travelling and subsistence allowances by the department in programmes 3, 4 and 5. 5. Although the Department had prioritised the need to develop skills, the budget allocation for bursaries and the provision for training and development has not increased significantly. 6. Failure to articulate and capture the number of job opportunities that would be created through the delivery of houses. 7. Recurring incapacity in the housing inspectorate, technical personnel in provinces and municipalities. This hinders the quality and pace of housing delivery. 8. Lack of data to distinguish between houses built and houses under construction. 9. Lack of social housing particularly in rural towns. 10. Lack of progress on rectifying and rebuilding of houses affected by natural disasters. 11. Inadequate planning of beneficiary lists results in unoccupied and vandalised houses. 12. Poor implementation and coordination on community awareness campaigns. 13. Inability of Community Residential Unit (CRU) to address challenges facing hostel dwellers due to the absence of a coherent policy. 14. No national strategy to deal with backyard dwellers.