Friday’s release of Government’s Public Housing Plan is not enough to address the crisis of affordable housing that Auckland faces says Hope Simonsen, Chair of the Auckland Community Housing Provider Network. “The very limited focus on social housing (public housing)...
In our research, we explore different design solutions to convert existing housing into shared living spaces for people approaching their later years. Housing in New Zealand The majority of the housing stock in New Zealand is a three-or-more-bedroom house. Stats New...
The funding brings forward the development of around 1,100 houses by six years with the first houses expected in 2020. The infrastructure includes wastewater mains and a pump station, water supply reservoir and mains, a new roundabout on SH6, pedestrian and cycle...
“Queenstown Lakes District has the highest median house price in New Zealand, so it makes sense that it also has the highest HomeStart house price cap, alongside Auckland, to give buyers a fair chance at accessing the grant,” Phil Twyford said. “The previous HomeStart...
“Our tenancy laws are antiquated and don’t reflect the fact that renting is now a long-term reality for many of our families. A third of all New Zealanders now rent,” Phil Twyford said. “Insecure tenure can forcer families to continually move house. This is...
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State Housing Action Network has written to Housing Minister Phil Twyford asking the government to appoint an independent group to assess compensation claims from tenants and families evicted in Housing New Zealand’s meth-testing fiasco We have told Twyford that HNZ...
“It can also take many weeks to even get a Tenancy Tribunal hearing, while tenants can sit in a property without paying rent. Without a Tenancy Tribunal order you cannot get a non-paying tenant out of your property. Even when you do, it can then take many more...
When I was interviewed 11 months ago for the executive administration role, I was asked why I wanted the job. I said “I want to do something worthy,” having had a series of meaningless government department roles. Now that I work in the community housing...
Associate Housing and Urban Development Minister Jenny Salesa formally opened the housing development on Sturdee Road. The development is a joint project: Housing New Zealand (HNZ) built the housing and the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) has contracted STRIVE...
Sleeping outside Wellington’s Downtown Community Ministry, all Tony wanted was a home. It was a last stop after years of rough living, years spent on-and-off a Housing New Zealand waiting list, and years since the death of his beloved girlfriend took away the...
“There are now 8704 households on the waiting list for a state house, up from 7890, or 9 per cent, in the past three months. That’s up a massive 56 per cent increase on the same time last year and shows the extent the housing crisis is hurting New Zealanders,” he...
The Insulation Association of New Zealand (IAONZ) has been established, with the support of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA), by representatives of some of the major manufacturers, suppliers and installers in the insulation secto The primary...
Published by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, using data and research from building research agency BRANZ and private sector building sector intelligence firm Pacificecon, the latest pipeline report lowers the 2017 report’s forecast that...
The loans from the $1 billion Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) will enable the building of 1,850 houses in the Kingston township and new greenfield sites in Quail Rise South on the Frankton Flats. “The infrastructure at Kingston to support new housing includes new...