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Working alongside the Community Housing Sector

Community Housing Aotearoa works alongside members to ensure that issues of importance to them from a local and regional perspective can be heard at a national level. We can achieve this in ways such as:

  • Supporting submissions to government agencies and other relevant groups.
  • Facilitating collaboration amongst organisations and individuals who, working together, can influence the future direction of the community housing sector.
  • Building capacity to promote and publicise issues that affect or impact on the community housing sector.

Current Examples

Examples of current member issues that Community Housing Aotearoa is actively engaged with include:

  • Collating and providing feedback to government on the the Housing Innovation Fund (HIF) process.
  • Summarising key recommendations from the recent National Maori Housing conference to put forward to government agencies and other relevant groups.

See our:

Budget sets clock ticking (May2011)

    Building Competitive Cities (December 2010)
    Housing Advisory Group (September 2010)
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RESOURCES & RESEARCH

  • In this section of our website Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) aims to be provide access to relevant resources and research of use to our members on a wide variety of housing topics and issues that are also of wider interest.
  • CHA has published occasional research reports – see below – but is not itself a ‘research centre’. Our focus is on publicising useful publications and research papers and helping to promote wider access to useful research.
  • CHA members will be advised when new resources or research sources are added to this section of the website through CHA’s e-newsletter and notices.
  • We are also happy to receive and assist with general inquiries from researchers and to supply further lists of publications and website links.
  • If you know of useful resources or website links that you want to notify us about please send an email with details to support@communityhousing.org.nz
HOT TOPIC: Public Private Partnerships

  • Public Private Partnerships: A publication of the Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit of the Salvation Army (May 2011) – DOWNLOAD
  • Accommodating Contestability in Social Housing – KPMG (August 2010) – DOWNLOAD
Access to CHA Best Practice Resource Library

Note: CHA’s Best Practice Resource Library, consisting of the Best Practice Guide and well over 300 separate documents, forms, checklists and templates, is a service provided to members via our Member Networks and Services page.

Recent presentations by CHA members

  • Housing in Auckland – presentations by Alan Johnson
    >     The changing faces of Auckland’s housing market (July 2010) - PDF file
    > Dividing Auckland – The role of housing markets and housing policy in the creation of a segregated city (Nov 2010) – Large PPT file/ 6MB
    > The contribution of housing policies to social polarisation in Auckland (November 2010) – Word doc
  • Nelson Tasman Housing Trust – A Case Study of a Community Housing Organisation in New Zealand
    - presentation by Keith Preston. (November 2010) – Word doc
  • New Zealand Housing Foundation
    - presentation by Dominic Foote. (July 2010) – Large PDF file/ 1MB

Recent reports published by CHA

New Zealand Research Portal

  • Housing Research for New Zealand
    Housing Research for New Zealand is a collaboration between a group of organisations that carry out research into housing issues — social, economic, technical and environmental. This portal is still in its early days but the number of articles is increasing. When looking for research on Community Housing consider using the following keywords:

    • Community Housing
    • Affordable Housing
    • Housing for the Aged
    • Social Housing
    • Rental Housing
    • Tenancy
    • Sustainable Housing
    • Intermediate Housing
    An A to Z of New Zealand and Australian websites

    (With more additions to follow)

    An A to Z of other International websites
    • The Centre for Housing Policy, York University (UK); go to www.york.ac.uk

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