Just Housing Ōtepoti

Just Housing Ōtepoti is a Charitable Trust established in 1995 to help low-income families into affordable, sustainable housing. It successfully built two houses in Brockville and assisted occupants into ownership. It has helped renovate two homes, donated a section to Habitat for Humanity and insulated a further 30 homes.

In 2004 the Trustees entered a Memorandum of Understanding with Presbyterian Support Otago to apply the Trust’s remaining assets of $130,000 to a social housing project to build four new rental homes on land in Whakaari, Dunedin. These houses are for low-income families to rent and comprise of 2 x 2-bedroom and 2 x 3-bedroom homes. The project was jointly funded by Just Housing Ōtepoti and Housing New Zealand Corporation.

The total cost of the project was $1.3 million with Just Housing Ōtepoti contributing $187,000. The remainder being made up with a Suspensory Loan from HNZC, and a Grant from the HNZC Housing Innovation Fund.

The four new homes were officially opened by David Parker on 20th December 2006.

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  • Voice of the sector: contribute to whole-of-sector policy positions
  • Conferences and training at a reduced member rate
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The CHA Constitution sets out two categories of members – Full and Partner – these are defined below:

Full Membership

These are Iwi, Maori and Pacific Island and Community or voluntary housing organisations and groups which are either:

a) Providers of Community housing, or

b) Groups intending or seeking to become providers of Community- housing, or

c) Groups of residents/tenants of community housing, or

d) Groups which advocate for Community housing or residents of Community housing as part of their work.

The annual fee for Full Members is based on your organisation’s gross income:

1. Up to $1m, the fee is $500 +GST

2. From $1m to $5m the fee is $1,000 +GST

3. $5m and over the fee is $1,500 +GST per annum.

Partner Membership

These are individuals, local authorities, private development companies, and other private and public entities which invest, operate, own or develop affordable, Community and/or Social housing.

If you have a question about which category of membership you should apply for, please contact us to discuss.

The annual fee for Partner Member is fixed at $250 + GST per annum.

The membership year is from 1 Jan – 30 Dec.

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