With a full audience of 184 people at CHA's annual conference held today in Wellington at Te Wharewaka ki Poneke, the Minister of Social Housing, Paula Bennett, discussed the Government's support of the community housing sector. Here is the speech.
Bennett commented to media at the CHA Conference today that the Government was considering a stand-down period for those who rejected state houses without good reason. She said officials had told her over 400 people turned down properties in the last year for...
Read comments here from CHA Director-Scott Figenshow, among others, following a social services select committee on the Social Housing Reform (Transaction Mandate) Bill.
The agreement between the Tauranga Moana & Te Puke Housing Consortium and the Masterton Trust House Community Enterprise is the first of its kind in New Zealand and comes at a time before the start of social housing transfers in Invercargill and Tauranga. Read...
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