25 October 2014, NZ Herald: Handing Housing NZ role to private sector will mean subsidising sell-off “Community Housing Aotearoa, the umbrella group representing private providers, has flagged a number of initiatives for raising large amounts of cash, including...
“The Queenstown Lakes District is one of the five least affordable housing areas in New Zealand, with a median house price of $664,000. The Accord agreed today aims to deliver a 20 per cent increase on the number of houses that have been built in the area in the past,...
Every six weeks, an inter-agency planning group, including the Tenants’ Protection Association (Christchurch), the Methodist Mission and ComCare Trust co-ordinates an extremely well-attended, interagency Housing Forum. On 22 October 2014, the forum focused on the...
In 1987, Auckland’s Ponsonby Baptist Church set up the Community of Refuge Trust (CORT) in response to the housing needs of people on low incomes in its local area. CORT Community Housing now manages 186 properties and has 216 tenants: It owns 95 properties and rents...
Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says the City Council is a major provider in the affordable rental housing sector in Wellington and that the Council is keeping to its commitment to review its Social Housing Policy every five years. Read the full press release on Scoop...
