Habitat for Humanity Southern

Habitat for Humanity Southern Region is the southernmost Affiliate of the global housing charity Habitat for Humanity whose vision is of “a world where everybody has a decent place to live”.

The Affiliate is the result of an amalgamation of three Habitat for Humanity Affiliates: Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill.

Habitat for Humanity Southern Region operates a number of housing programmes across Canterbury, Otago and Southland including:

• Progressive Home Ownership: Habitat’s flagship rent-to-buy home ownership program.
• Home Repair Program: A BNZ-supported no-interest loan affordable repair program which assists homeowners with repairs and improvements they could not otherwise afford.
• Other region-specific programmes including tenancy management of two boarding houses (Invercargill), a Healthy Homes Minor Repairs Program in partnership with the Dunedin Curtain Bank.
• Supporting overseas home builds and disaster relief through financial contributions.

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Membership Benefits

  • Voice of the sector: contribute to whole-of-sector policy positions
  • Conferences and training at a reduced member rate
  • Fortnightly e-bulletins sent directly to your inbox
  • Access to a members-only section on the CHA website
  • Participation in member surveys and forums
  • Access to the CHA quality assurance programme and training
  • Advance notices about new developments and initiatives.

The CHA Constitution sets out two categories of members – Full and Partner – these are defined below:

Full Membership

These are Iwi, Maori and Pacific Island and Community or voluntary housing organisations and groups which are either:

a) Providers of Community housing, or

b) Groups intending or seeking to become providers of Community- housing, or

c) Groups of residents/tenants of community housing, or

d) Groups which advocate for Community housing or residents of Community housing as part of their work.

The annual fee for Full Members is based on your organisation’s gross income:

1. Up to $1m, the fee is $500 +GST

2. From $1m to $5m the fee is $1,000 +GST

3. $5m and over the fee is $1,500 +GST per annum.

Partner Membership

These are individuals, local authorities, private development companies, and other private and public entities which invest, operate, own or develop affordable, Community and/or Social housing.

If you have a question about which category of membership you should apply for, please contact us to discuss.

The annual fee for Partner Member is fixed at $250 + GST per annum.

The membership year is from 1 Jan – 30 Dec.

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