Ngongotaha Angrily Rejects Council’s Special Housing Area Proposal

Apr 16, 2018 | News

“Under the pretext of improving the supply of affordable houses,” said Glenys Searancke, RDRR Chair, “the Mayor has used the Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Act to ram through a proposal for sign off by the Minister of Housing Phil Twyford. It will see a...

16 April 2018 CHA newsletter

Apr 16, 2018 | Newsletters

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Have your say on whether tenants should pay letting fees

Apr 13, 2018 | News

The Social Services and Community Committee is seeking submissions on the Residential Tenancies (Prohibiting Letting Fees) Amendment Bill. The bill aims to ensure that costs associated with letting a rental property are met by the landlord, who benefits from letting a...

Architecturally designed, relocatable and sustainable prefabricated homes to be built in Levin plant

Apr 12, 2018 | Uncategorised

Greenhaven Homes is the dream of Levin-born builder Todd Strode-Penny, his partner Natalie and their architectural designer Gary Phillips. “The quarter-acre section is dead,” says Mr Strode-Penny. “People want low maintenance, low care and sustainably warm homes. They...

Housing pressures require urgent action in face of ongoing growth

Apr 10, 2018 | Uncategorised

Rotorua is growing for the first time in more than a decade and that growth has created a housing shortage – we are under pressure. Almost daily we hear about the urgent need for more homes, calls for Council to do something about it and accusations we’re not doing...

Insight: Full House – Homelessness & Big Families

Apr 10, 2018 | News

Maria is exhausted. The solo-mother to seven children under 17 years-old has been searching for somewhere to call home for almost a year. Wearing a faded blue T-shirt and brown floral lavalava, she cups her hands in her lap and speaks softly about the difficulties she...

​New Property Management Standards Needed

Apr 10, 2018 | News

Currently, there are no standards for management of rental properties, whether looked after by a private landlord or professional agency. Anyone can call themselves a property manager – which can lead to bad experiences for both property owners and property...

Medium Density Housing Summit to respond to New Zealand’s ranking as least affordable for housing in OECD

Apr 9, 2018 | Uncategorised

The Summit will take place against a backdrop of competing priorities for New Zealand land use that are disrupting the balance between social, economic and environmental needs. It comes at a time when a confluence of factors are straining the nation’s residential...

Landlord fined for non-compliant gas supply

Apr 9, 2018 | News

Lina Liu, the landlord of two boarding houses, was taken to the Tenancy Tribunal by MBIE’s Tenancy Compliance and Investigations Team (TCIT) for failing to meet her responsibilities under the Residential Tenancies Act (RTA). “Following complaints of a gas leak at one...

​CHA says government needs community input to fix housing

Apr 5, 2018 | News

Chief Executive Scott Figenshow today endorsed the United Nation’s report into New Zealand’s progress on housing, which backs a call for a human rights based national housing strategy. Such a strategy would require housing to be affordable, habitable, accessible and...