LENNOX Mabaso, a senior KZN housing department official, said last week that all the developments started in the province so far had been completed.

There were NO examples where projects had been started and then abandoned by developers, he said.

BUT HE'S WRONG...HE'S TALKING RUBBISH!

That's the accusation from Fred Wagner, the chairman of a community forum in Pietermaritzburg.

He told the People's Paper that the housing department was supposed to build 714 RDP houses at Madiba Park, Ward 14 in Eastwood, Pietermaritzburg.

"The department issued 714 subsidies to residents of the area. But developers only managed to build about 500 houses. They then built the foundations for more than 200 houses before vanishing - and that was in December 2005.

Come and live here, Mabaso!

HOMELESS people in KZN are angry - VERY angry.

They're tired of waiting for houses that do not come...tired of not getting answers to their questions.

NOW THEY THINK THAT LOCAL OFFICIALS ARE NOT TAKING THEM SERIOUSLY ENOUGH!

Officials should leave their offices and come and see for themselves, angry squatter leaders said.

The comments of Lennox Mabaso, a spokesman for the KZN Department of Housing, were reported in the Daily Sun yesterday.

He said there was no housing backlog in KZN.