{"id":65096,"date":"2025-12-19T09:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65096\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:34:10","slug":"groundbreaking-housing-project-in-bethlehem-set-to-transform-the-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65096\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking housing project in Bethlehem set to transform the area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human Settlements Minister Thembi Simelane visited Bethlehem\u2019s Baken Park Catalytic Housing Project on Wednesday, 17 December 2025, overseeing the R370m initiative aimed at delivering mixed-income homes, accelerating housing delivery, promoting economic growth, and transforming the area through strategic government support.<br \/>\u201cThe project is a mixed-income residential development which will yield 1248 housing units on completion. These include First Home Finance, Breaking New Ground (BNG), and social housing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Already 100 serviced sites have been released for First Home Finance, thus enabling the missing middle to build houses for themselves,\u201d the Department of Human Settlements said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister was joined on her oversight visit by Free State Premier Ma-Queen Letsoha-Mathae.<\/p>\n<p>According to the department, the project represents a strategic intervention aligned with national and provincial priorities to accelerate housing delivery, promote spatial transformation, and stimulate inclusive economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>The in-loco inspection was led by MEC for CoGTA and Human Settlements, Saki Mokoena, and the executive mayor of Dihlabeng Local Municipality, Tseki Tseki.<\/p>\n<p>All rights reserved. \u00a9 2022. Bizcommunity.com Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (<a href=\"http:\/\/syndigate.info\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Syndigate.info<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Human Settlements Minister Thembi Simelane visited Bethlehem\u2019s Baken Park Catalytic Housing Project on Wednesday, 17 December 2025, overseeing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-65096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}