Ending Youth Homelessness: A Human Rights Guide

The guide, based on research, consultations, input from youth and the expertise of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Ms. Leilani Farha, argues that all young people have a fundamental, legal right to be free of homelessness and to have access...

Home ownership rates continue to drop

Herald On Sunday Photograph by Doug Sherring A record high of 73.8 per cent (848,916) was last recorded 26 years ago in 1991 – 10 per cent more than the latest figures. Renters in the same time period made up only about 23 per cent of the total. See the NZ...

People’s Project a success

“We’ve done that by using the ‘Housing First’ approach, which is housing people first and then putting the support services around people that will assist them to deal with some of the issues that resulted in them coming onto the street in the...

Bill English’s new cabinet

Read Scott’s comments to RNZ here. “One of the first questions would be ‘how are we going to build a consistent pipeline that delivers a thousand new units of social and affordable housing each year, every year, for the next decade?'” The Prime...