The difference in price-tags in renting the houses at Toekoms and Olympia Park Municipal Housing, have residents fuming.
This is what Glenda Steyn, member of Gauteng Provincial Legislature and Ashur Sarupen, DA councillor of Ekurhuleni municipality, heard when they visited Toekoms on Saturday.
The residents said there was a difference in rentals for the same sized units.
There also was an old and new policy on rentals that further aggravated the difference in price.
Some people’s rent stay the same while others have to pay the compulsory 10% increase in price each year and others’ rent is less than allowed for by a state pensioner.
What made the residents also fume was that it seemed that metro council employees got preference to allocation of homes in both Toekoms and Olympia Park.
Some single people live in a two-bedroomed home, while families of four have to live in a one-bedroomed house.
They felt existing families were overlooked when a bigger unit became available.
An unemployed woman said she was not allowed to register as an indigent, which caused her to get more in arrears with her rent.
Sarupen told residents he would ask questions to Ekurhuleni on the difference in price of the rentals, while Steyn promised to get the petition residents had already handed to Gauteng legislature and to take it further.
