Community Housing Solutions

Community Housing Solutions Ltd (CHS) is the consulting service subsidiary of
Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA).

About Community Housing Solutions

Community Housing Solutions (CHS) was established to provide Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) with a delivery arm to provide technical consulting services to individual members and community housing providers and other organisations seeking specialist advice on social and affordable housing.

We use this decision tree (to the right) to decide if something falls under member or sector support or if it should be undertaken by CHS.

View a PDF of the flowchart here.

What’s the difference between CHA and CHS?

Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) is an incorporated society and registered charity. CHS is a wholly-owned company of CHA and is also a registered charity. As an incorporated society CHA focuses on the needs of its members and its mission of promoting community housing. CHA has a contract with government to deliver peak body services for community housing and also homeless sector support services. CHS was established to clearly differentiate those activities from work which falls outside the scope of peak body services.

Community Housing Aotearoa

Publicly funded core peak body services

  • Public policy advice
  • Advocacy
  • Training and events
  • Network support
  • Problem triage and advice
  • Directing to contacts or resources
  • Access to the Best Practice Standards
  • Up to date Best Practice Guide and associated resources
  • Advice on Best Practice implementation
  • Community Housing Regulatory Authority registration coaching
  • Advice and information related to Best Practice
  • Newsletter

Community Housing Solutions Limited

Fee for service

  • Housing needs assessments
  • Strategic planning advice
  • Asset management advice and portfolio planning
  • Community Housing Regulatory Authority registration application preparation
  • Research and evaluation
  • Development of organisational-specific resources
  • Development of scheme-specific financial models

Examples of the work CHS has undertaken

    • 2023 Alternative Tenures research report as subconsultant to Livingston & Associates for BRANZ

    • 2023 Housing Advisory Services to Westpac Government Innovation Fund

    • 2022 Housing Needs Assessment report to Kāpiti Coast District Council

    • 2022 Community Housing Provider registration services to the Ministry for Pacific Peoples

    • 2021 Housing Needs Assessment report to Selwyn District Council

    • 2020 Community Housing Policy and Strategy advice to Dunedin City Council

    • 2020 Housing Needs Assessment report to Waimakariri District Council

    • 2020 Housing Needs Assessment update report to Hutt City Council
    • 2019 Housing Needs Assessment report to Hutt City Council
    • 2017 Housing Needs Assessment report to SmartGrowth covering Tauranga / Western Bay of Plenty
    • 2020 Social and Affordable Housing report for the Greater Christchurch Partnership
    • 2018 report for Christchurch City Council evaluating the Goulding Avenue property sold by Council at a restricted use value to a consortium of community housing providers to deliver social, affordable rental and assisted home ownership
    • Auckland City Council Housing Policy Office development of policies, procedures and documents to administer the Special Housing Areas
    • 2014 report for The Treasury on the community housing sector.

In addition, other relevant projects include the provision of advice and/or participation in:

    • The Dunedin Mayor’s Taskforce for Housing
    • Tauranga City Council’s Elderly Housing Review Working Group
    • The Wellington Mayor’s Housing Taskforce
    • The Queenstown Lakes District Council’s Housing Affordability Taskforce; and
    • The Hutt City Council’s Homeless Strategy meeting facilitation.

Who to contact?

Chris Glaudel

Chris Glaudel

Deputy Chief Executive

Chris Glaudel has over 25 years’ direct experience across a variety of roles in social and affordable housing including development, tenancy and property management, asset management and policy development. As the Deputy Chief Executive of Community Housing Aotearoa, Chris is responsible for the operational activities, member services, capacity building and quality assurance, and policy development and research to deliver on the strategic objectives of the organisation. He has overseen the development of more than 1,500 affordable ownership and rental homes in central California. He was also responsible for the asset management of 115 properties throughout California with over 5,000 units, all serving low-income households. Phone: 027 462 0605

Contact Us

Level 11, Ranchhod Tower

39 The Terrace/102-112 Lambton Quay
PO Box 11543
Wellington 6142

04 385 8722

[email protected]