New Housing Affordability Measure welcomed

New Housing Affordability Measure welcomed

May 11, 2017 | Research

CHA is pleased to see the release of the new Housing Affordability Measure, a tier one official statistic. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s (MBIE) new measure will allow the market to be monitored at a more detailed level and has been developed...

What budget 2017 has in store

May 9, 2017 | News

Bill English announced 10 new targets for Government to achieve and one of them is a target will be to achieve a 20 per cent reduction in the time it takes to house priority clients on the social housing register. Budget 2017 will include a $321 million Social...

Blenheim faces housing issues

May 9, 2017 | News

Peter McGhee has been living in a motel while state houses in Blenheim are boarded up More was spent on the Emergency Housing Special Needs Grants in this region than anywhere else in the South Island in the December quarter, when 340 grants were issued. In 2012,...
New Housing Affordability Measure welcomed

Rental homes in poorer condition than owner occupied homes

Apr 27, 2017 | Research

Of the more than 500 houses assessed in the BRANZ Housing Condition Survey, nearly a third of rentals felt damp, three times as many as the owner-occupied properties. Assessors rated rental properties twice as likely to be ‘poorly maintained’. The survey,...