New Housing Affordability Measure welcomed

New Housing Affordability Measure welcomed

May 11, 2017 | Research

CHA is pleased to see the release of the new Housing Affordability Measure, a tier one official statistic. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s (MBIE) new measure will allow the market to be monitored at a more detailed level and has been developed...

What budget 2017 has in store

May 9, 2017 | News

Bill English announced 10 new targets for Government to achieve and one of them is a target will be to achieve a 20 per cent reduction in the time it takes to house priority clients on the social housing register. Budget 2017 will include a $321 million Social...

Blenheim faces housing issues

May 9, 2017 | News

Peter McGhee has been living in a motel while state houses in Blenheim are boarded up More was spent on the Emergency Housing Special Needs Grants in this region than anywhere else in the South Island in the December quarter, when 340 grants were issued. In 2012,...
New Housing Affordability Measure welcomed

Rental homes in poorer condition than owner occupied homes

Apr 27, 2017 | Research

Of the more than 500 houses assessed in the BRANZ Housing Condition Survey, nearly a third of rentals felt damp, three times as many as the owner-occupied properties. Assessors rated rental properties twice as likely to be ‘poorly maintained’. The survey,...

New social housing quarterly report out

Apr 26, 2017 | News

The report shows that: ·$550 million total housing support provided in the March 2017 quarter (89 days) ·Helped 1800 households into homes ·4865 people on the housing register – up 2 per cent on last quarter ·9218 emergency housing Special Needs Grants paid to 2616...

Life When Renting – mid-term summit

Apr 26, 2017 | Events

This research programme asks, what are the future implications for NZ of growing dependence on the rental market? It is about the future of older people in an increasingly diverse NZ where there is not only population ageing but also NZ’s previously very high rate of...
27 April CHA Newsletter

Community Housing Aotearoa Newsletter 13 April 2017

Apr 13, 2017 | Newsletters

We also look at new research on community housing providers, procurement and the building industry and there will be a briefing on this and other research on 9 May. Included is an update on the Auckland emergency housing network and a look at the research on...
New Housing Affordability Measure welcomed

New research on positive outcomes in affordable housing

Apr 12, 2017 | Research

These reports, along with a summary reports (bulletin and synthesis), are attached here: ·HF Research Bulletin April 2017.pdf – an over view of all three studies – Housing Foundation (HF) ·Social and Economic Impacts of Housing Tenure FCSPRU.pdf – Family Centre...