Electrical, water, and sewer connections have been completed for ultra-low-income housing units built by the Omaruru Municipality.

The houses were built to accommodate families relocated in June this year from dilapidated single-quarter houses.

This was confirmed by Omaruru Chief Executive Officer, Valentines Shindongo, who said the 36 units have been fenced off and occupied by families.

Under the Build Together Programme, the new units are occupied at a cost of N$600 per month, with an option for the 36 prospective homeowners to purchase them for N$74,000 each.

The units are situated at the town's extensions 5 and 6 locations.

The 22 families who did not qualify for the new units were allocated erven to set up their own houses or structures.

Shindongo says plans are underway to demolish the now vacant single-quarter houses to make way for an open market and business stalls.

"I don't know if you know the single quarters in Windhoek. We are looking into that line because, if you look at Omaruru, we have a number of livestock coming in, and we want to promote that as a means to also engage in that. So we will have stands for kapana, stands for clothes, space for clothes, salons, and barbershops. We will also have meat-cutting and welding space. We will also have carwashes. So there are quite a number of activities that are going to be there, and those also that sell their indigenous products and local products, but the whole reason we want to promote investment opportunities is because those are some of the things lacking in the town."

The council also took resolutions to write off the N$1.9 million debt incurred on the single-quarters plot before the market is set up next year.