$500,000 boost for emergency housing providers

“In January the Prime Minister announced Government plans to support the emergency housing sector with a $500,000 cash injection alongside a wider review of funding, as part of our Social Housing Reforms,” says Mrs Bennett. Today’s announcement sees additional...

Update on taxation issues

Part of the solution officials arrived at for addressing the potential tax liabilities faced by community housing providers, in the wake of the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust decision and the new income tax exemption of “Community Housing Entities”, was for...

State house sale plan ‘sugar coated’

Labour says the Government has used the Salvation Army’s good name to reassure the public that houses will be sold to charities, when in it actually plans to sell them to private companies. The Salvation Army has decided not to buy state houses due to a lack of...