Urban sprawl eating up NZ’s productive land – report

A report out today, called Our Land 2018, shows New Zealand’s urban sprawl is eating up some of the country’s most versatile land. It highlights that between 1990 and 2008, 29 percent of new urban areas were built on some of the country’s most...

New Council housing under way in Akaroa

A whakawatea (blessing) and ground-breaking ceremony was held today at the Council’s Bruce Terrace housing complex, where three existing units will be demolished to make way for five new ones. The old units, which were temporarily repaired following the Christchurch...

Housing First Auckland City Centre one year on …

Launched in March 2017, Lifewise and Auckland City Mission are working with mostly single rough sleepers in the City Centre who are known to their services and who have been homeless for many years. “We’ve had a really good response rate to the programme with 86% of...

KiwiBuild meets IwiBuild

The summit is an opportunity for Auckland iwi and Māori providers to discuss housing issues with key ministers. It will be attended by Hon Phil Twyford (Minister for Housing and Urban Development) and Hon Nanaia Mahuta (Minister for Māori Development). A key focus...

CNSST Kotuku House – a new era in housing for Auckland

Mayor Phil Goff officially opened the new property. Hon Jenny Salesa, Minister for Building and Construction and Ethnic Communities, and Simon O’Connor, spokesperson for Social Housing and MP for Tamaki, gave speeches. CNSST Kotuku House was built by the Chinese...