Pretoria - Struggling low-to-middle income earners in East London will soon get affordable rental accommodation.
On Saturday, President Jacob Zuma will launch a flagship social housing project called the Emerald Sky Project.
The Emerald Sky project is one of many that will be launched to provide affordable housing to people in need - on well-located landscapes - as part of the government's new human settlements concept, the Presidency said in a statement.
The project consists of 656 units, of which 350 units are already occupied.
"Through the social housing programme, government provides grant funding to private developers to build rental homes for low and middle income workers in an effort to prevent the spiraling of slum houses in the cities," it said.
The project is in line with Zuma's call during his State of the Nation Address to accommodate people whose salaries are too high to get government subsidies but who earn too little to qualify for a normal bank mortgage.
