“Begging is not a lifestyle choice, neither is being homeless. In a perfect world, no one would be poor, be the victim of sexual or domestic abuse or have a mental illness. But we live in the real world and there are vulnerable people in Wellington who need and...
Eaqub says: "The plan is a long-term enabling tool. It won't fix issues around infrastructure and land-banking. I don't expect a short-term impact, unless the Government moves urgently to give the council the ability to raise more revenue (for example through...
Here's the Radio NZ Insight programme report on this.It looks at how te Puea responded to the crisis with their manakitanga programme and how the Government are responding to the housing shortage over this winter. Here is the closing ceremony at Te Puea Marae: See...
This report by Radio New Zealand looks at what's going on in Canterbury housing now. It shows some of the solutions that community housing providers, New Zealand Housing Foundation and the Methodist Mission, and others are offering. See more here:
Nick Smith has written to four developers since mid-2015 saying he is keen to see progress in Special Housing Areas and strongly encourages them to contact the Auckland Council with an update. Denies that’s giving land bankers a free pass. “The people who promise they...
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Community Housing Aotearoa Scott Figenshow chief executive with Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust executive officer Julie Scott in front of homes under the shared equity scheme in Queenstown. Experts at a SmartGrowth Housing Affordability Forum workshop looked...
The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust expects to begin building 14 homes on a greenfield site near Onslow Rd, bordering Lake Hayes Estate, next June. The development will be the trust’s first under its “Secure Home” programme, which is based...
A concept sketch for Dunedin project High Street Cohousing Photo: Supplied by www.architype.co.nz Co-housing involves family homes being built in clusters of up to 35, around shared living spaces, gardens and communal facilities. The concept has existed in some other...
26 October 2017 Community housing sector ready to increase social and affordable homes New Zealand’s community housing sector welcomes the new Labour-led coalition Government. “We are ready to partner to see ‘all New Zealanders well-housed’,” says Scott Figenshow, CE...
Following from the IMPACT Conference in June, colleagues have said to us “to make a bigger difference we have to do things differently”. We need some disruption! We’ve asked Leonie Freeman, leader of Housing Connect and the Auckland Housing Summit to help us get ready...