The Auckland Council is getting ready to put some of the city’s boarding houses under greater scrutiny. Critics say the houses can be overcrowded, unsafe and unsanitary – and don’t have to be licenced or have a permit. Listen to the full story on...
Neil Binnie of the Bays Community Housing Trust on Auckland’s North Shore told Cabinet ministers Bill English and Paula Bennett at their first consultation meeting on state-house sales that a price of zero was the only way to fund both buying houses and...
“In 2014 Mr Twyford addressed a community housing conference, telling members he was committed to them having access to the income-related rent subsidy, capital grants and stock transfers.” “He also noted that members had shown ‘they can build good quality homes at...
The Deputy Mayor of Auckland, Penny Hulse, spoke today in response to the Salvation Army’s 2015 State of the Nation report, which found that a lack of safe, affordable housing in Auckland and Christchurch is badly impacting the health and well-being of children and...
Aucklanders are faced with an affordable housing crisis with the average Auckland house price at $655,000, rents rising over the past two years and a housing supply shortage of 13,000 houses, the report finds, and the Government gets a D grade for housing in the...