Moving to results-based contracts with community investment
The programme is a co-design approach to support the Ministry’s Community Investment Strategy. Over the next nine months, Ākina and MSD will team up with a number of providers and Community Investment Advisors, to work together to develop new results-based contracting...
CHA newsletter 13 October, 2016
Read the newsletter here: 13 October.pdf18 Affordable homes built in SHAs
Go here to read this official information response from the Auckland Council.Squeezed out of Auckland’s housing market
The report tracks how long it would take typical first home buyers in each region to save a 20% deposit on the REINZ’s lower quartile selling price in their region. The income calculations assume both partners work full time and earn the median weekly wage for...Cross-party Inquiry into Homelessness releases report
The Inquiry heard repeatedly from organisations and others that they were stressed and unable to cope with the level of homelessness they were facing. Wellington social worker Jude Douglas said the experience of working with the homeless is “like a medic in a war zone...Government signals it is set to accelerate home building programme in Auckland
“The Government will be a provider for the next 10 years of significant numbers of medium-density, medium-priced housing into the Auckland market,” he told the Heraldin an interview. “Over the next six months, you’ll also see a growing...Wellington housing market now rising faster than Auckland
The Auckland market has increased 15.0% year on year and 5.8% over the past three months. Values there are now 88.7% higher than the previous peak of 2007. When adjusted for inflation values rose 14.5% over the past year and are 60.2% above the 2007 peak. The average...