Auckland home consents hit 13,000

A total of 13,078 new homes were consented in the region in the year ended October 2018 – up 25 percent from the year before, and four times as many as the low point in the August 2009 year. “Home permits in Auckland briefly reached a similar high level in the early...

Queenstown’s Joan of Arc is battling for affordable housing

Not all heroes wear capes. Sometimes they walk among us and perform their magic without needing to transform into someone different. It’s the seemingly ordinary-looking jobs that can have a tremendous effect. Meet Julie Scott, the executive officer of the Queenstown...

Celebrations for Wellington’s new Selwyn Sprott Village

Following the announcement in July that The Selwyn Foundation and Sprott House Trust had entered into a conditional agreement, with a view to Selwyn purchasing the village after a three month transitional period, the sale has completed and Sprott House has now joined...

Offsite manufacturers keen to partner with KiwiBuild

The KiwiBuild Unit has received 102 responses for its Invitation to Pitch for offsite manufacturers, Minister of Housing and Urban Development Phil Twyford announced today. KiwiBuild’s Invitation to Pitch for Offsite Manufacturing has closed. It asked companies...

Emotional start to homelessness debate

Social service agencies, a school principal and a mother who had recently been homeless described the dire emotional and physical toll that homelessness takes, especially on women and children who make up New Zealand’s largest category of homeless people. A Lower Hutt...

​$5 million additional funding for City Mission proposed

The Mayor’s Annual Budget proposal also confirms the largest ever annual capital investment in transport infrastructure of $1.2 billion, continued investment in the water quality improvement programme and protection of kauri and holding average general rate rises to...

New urban development agency unveiled to build more homes

The new authority will be responsible for leading the Government’s large-scale urban development projects and for being a world class state housing landlord. It will bring together three existing agencies that build homes – Housing New Zealand, its subsidiary HLC, and...