Members

Community Housing Aotearoa does not provide housing, our members do. CHA’s members include community housing organisations, social service providers, developers, researchers, and many other organisations with a focus on community.

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Tupoho Housing

Tupoho Housing

Tupoho Housing Ltd are a registered Community Housing Provider (holding CHP registration for Whanganui). Through this registration we work to support whānau to navigate the myriad of obstacles ...

Website: https://tupoho.com

Upper Hutt Housing Trust

Upper Hutt Housing Trust

The Upper Hutt Housing Trust is an Accredited Level 3 Social Sector provider and provides housing supported services and programmes to vulnerable households in the environs of Upper Hutt. We ...

Website: https://www.uhht.org.nz/

Urban Plus Limited

Urban Plus Limited

Urban Plus is owned by Hutt City Council and was established in July 2007. Urban Plus operates as ​a ​Council Controlled Organisation (CCO) under the Local Government Act 2002. Urban Plus is ...

Website: https://www.urbanplus.co.nz

VisionWest Community Trust

VisionWest Community Trust

VisionWest Community Trust operates across West Auckland, offering both emergency and long- term supportive housing as well as an integrated range of wrap-around support services to support the ...

Website: http://www.visionwest.org.nz/

WALSH Trust

WALSH Trust

WALSH Trust has been providing community based mental health support, and residential services for over 30 years, therefore we know a few things about mental health and the challenges of ...

Website: https://www.walsh.org.nz/

Wellington City Mission

Wellington City Mission

Wellingtonians are very proud of our city, the Coolest Little Capital in the World. While it is a great place to live, work, do business and to raise a family, for many it isn’t. For many ...

Website: http://www.wellingtoncitymission.org.nz/

Wellington Homeless Women’s Trust

The women we support throughout our programme are offered individual help based on their specific needs and goals. The Trust's role is to ensure that each women has access to the necessary ...

Website: https://www.whwt.kiwi/

Wera Aotearoa Charitable Trust (WACT)

Wera Aotearoa Charitable Trust (WACT)

Bay of Plenty, Waikato Wera Aotearoa Charitable Trust (WACT) WACT strive to provide greater housing opportunities to communities with a social lived experience lens to enhance Solid, strong & ...

Website: https://www.wact.org.nz/

Wesley Community Action

Wesley Community Action

Established in 1952 by the Methodist Church, Wesley Community Action has been pioneering innovative approaches to social justice and quietly helping create just and caring communities ever ...

Website: http://www.wesleyca.org.nz/

Whakaatu Whanaunga Trust

Whakaatu Whanaunga Trust

Housing is a major issue not just here in the Ōpōtiki District, but all around the country. We offer: Transitional short term housing, Tenancy & Rental advocacy advice, Māori Land-Home ...

Website: http://wwt.org.nz/

Whangarei Accessible Housing Trust

Whangarei Accessible Housing Trust

The Trust's main aim is to ensure that a disabled person has the maximum opportunity to increase their independence. The Trust provides information, advice and support relating to housing and ...

Website: http://whangareiaccessiblehousingtrust.org.nz/

Whatever It Takes Trust Inc.

Whatever It Takes Trust Inc.

Whatever It Takes Trust Inc. [WIT] is a community based, peer support service organisation for mental health consumers who live in Hawkes Bay. We operate a range of services to assist mental ...

Website: http://www.witservices.co.nz/

YWCA

YWCA

The YWCA in Christchurch was founded by Kate Shepherd and her cohort over 125 years ago. Since then it has morphed many times with the needs in society and is now an organisation that meets the ...

Website: https://www.ywcachristchurch.org.nz/

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Membership Benefits

  • CHA advocates on behalf of community housing organisations through submissions, policy positions, and government relations. 
  • Conferences and training at a reduced member rate
  • Fortnightly e-bulletins sent directly to your inbox
  • Access to the CHA quality assurance programmes, trainings, and advice 
  • Participation in member surveys and forums
  • Advance notices about new developments and initiatives.

The CHA Constitution sets out two categories of members – Full and Partner  these are defined below:

Full Membership

These are Iwi, Māori 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.

Join us by signing up below and pay online here

CHA provides the collective voice for community housing organisations so we can get on with providing homes. They provide the key messages we need heard about growing the community housing sector and how that can happen. CHA also keep us informed in a time when there’s a lot happening that we need to know about

CHA member, Alison Cadman, from Dwell Housing in Wellington

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News

Newsletters

Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) Newsletter 21 March 2022

COVID-19 RESPONSE, From bank overdraft debt repayment plan and into a 'rent-to-own' place of their own, Homelessness Action Plan 18 Month Review, In the News, EVENTS, Sector Call online zoom on Property Management Regulations, Property Council New Zealand -...

Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) Newsletter 21 February 2022

Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) Newsletter 21 February 2022 Progressive Home Ownership Financial Modelling Tools Released, Tenancy and Property Inspections under Omicron, Consultation on Proposed Regulation of Residential Property Managers, Applications for Local...

Submissions

Methamphetamine contamination draft guidelines issued

The new standards will have major implications for the way social landlords deal with the testing of properties for methamphetamine, both manufacture and use. It will also affect the remediation techniques used and has implications for both policies and procedures for...

HNZ housing stock transfer in Christchurch

Here are the presentations from Treasury and MSD. MSD 20170201 Purchasing Strategy Presentation - CHCH.pdf TSY Stock Tsfr 2 Feb 2017 TWCHPN.pdf CHA CEO, Scott Figenshow, says "We learned a lot about the crown retained investment and how it can work to provide equity...

Update on Cross-party inquiry into homelessness

Submissions will initially be heard by the inquiry at four locations: Te Puea Marae in Auckland, Tauranga, Wellington and Christchurch between the end of August and early September. Read more about the process here. Read the two-parts of the CHA and He Kainga Oranga...

Proposed Charities Act could remove the right to appeal

Update on progress of the bill: On Wednesday morning Marianne from Action station went to Parliament to present in person Action Stations crowd-sourced submission on the proposed changes to charities law. The Chair of the Select Committee, Ruth Dyson, asked her to...

CHA submission on Incorporated Societies Act

CHA have two areas of concern in the bill, these relate to: 1. changes to the number of members a society must have to register an incorporated society 2. the number of days to appeal decisions to the High Court. You can read the submission here: CHA submission Inc...

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Reports

A Stocktake of New Zealand’s Housing

I commissioned independent experts to report on the state of housing in New Zealand to provide an additional important contribution that will help inform Government policy decisions. This report assesses the key parts of our housing system; examining market renting,...

Auditor-General report on social housing

The Auditor-General published a report today looking at how well Housing New Zealand uses information to meet the needs of its tenants in its management of tenancies, maintenance of houses, and management and investment in new and existing housing. They made a number...

Bay of Plenty SmartGrowth report on housing need

Ian Mitchell (left) and Chris Glaudel, report authors, on housing trends in Tauranga and the rest of the Western Bay. Photo/George Novak The Bay of Plenty Times says an analysis of figures showed that only 1300 of Tauranga's 16,500 renters earned enough to affordably...

Report on the Getting Ready workshop 23 November

Four areas were identified as key for the sector to focus on over the next 100 days. Participants felt strongly that an offer from the community housing sector be made to help activate KiwiBuild. The four areas are: 1)Central purchasing / procurement at...

Research

Annual rent rises hit low-spending households

"Higher costs for rent, and cigarettes and tobacco, had a greater effect on lower-spending households," consumer prices manager Matt Haigh said, "Rent was up 2 percent this year, with the largest increases being observed in Auckland." Living costs for all households...

Cold homes harm NZ youth health and schooling

The article in the journal Social Science and Medicine – Population Health by Dr Kimberley O’Sullivan at He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme was co-authored by researchers from the University of Otago and more unusually, young researchers from...

Research shows New Zealand housing still unaffordable

The Massey Affordability Index takes into account the cost of borrowing as well as house prices and wagelevels. Key points from the report can be seen on the left. The report shows that this December quarter (2016) has seen a decline in affordability driven mainly by...

Child Poverty Monitor Technical report 2016

The first suite of indicators in this report comprises the five measures identified in the 2012 report to the New Zealand Children’s Commissioner from the Expert Advisory Group on solutions to child poverty: A fixed-line income measure, a moving-line income measure,...

Community Housing Provider Capacity research report

The report was prepared by Strategic Lift Ltd (SLL) who interviewed seven major Auckland-based community housing providers. It found that, under current funding arrangements, it is likely there would be no more than an additional 1,000 homes delivered. Read the report...

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Level 11, Ranchhod Tower,
39 The Terrace /
102-112 Lambton Quay
PO Box 11543
Wellington 6142

+04 385 8722

support@communityhousing.org.nz

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