Number of housing consents doubled but is it enough?
The highest number on record was in the June 1974 year, when 13 new homes were consented for every thousand residents (compared with an average of nine for the decade). In the year ended June 2016, the regions that consented the most new homes per thousand residents...The housing challenge – what is Government saying today?
Nick Smith has written to four developers since mid-2015 saying he is keen to see progress in Special Housing Areas and strongly encourages them to contact the Auckland Council with an update. Denies that’s giving land bankers a free pass. “The people who promise they...Community Housing Aotearoa AGM and panel on Our Place 26 October
Panel discussion on Our Place – 9am to 1pm This will be preceded by a panel discussion on Our Place: A Housing Plan for New Zealand, looking at what a real, comprehensive housing plan with multi-sector support would need to do to see all New Zealanders...New management for local authority housing in Auckland and Christchurch
Christchurch City Council housing to be managed by Otautahi Community Housing Trust Christchurch City Council has voted today to turn over management of its nearly 2500-home social housing portfolio to the Otautahi Community Housing Trust.The move was designed to...
Severe housing deprivation in Aotearoa/New Zealand 2001-2013
“In 2013, more than half (52 per cent) of homeless adults were working, studying, or both, up from 49 per cent in 2006,” Dr Amore says.Read the press release here. The key findings in this research show: ·The severely housing deprived or ‘homeless’...
Are we really serious about a community housing sector
The Trust saw an increase in the scale of supply-side initiatives, including increasing the size of the community housing sector, as the most critical policy interventions needed to address issues of housing affordability and the increasing inability of state housing...Social Investment in Community Housing: Moving Beyond Traditional Grantmaking
Join us at a facilitated workshop to provide philanthropic funders, community housing providers and other investors with the chance to explore new ways of investing in community housing. Register here. The goal of the workshop, which is being co-hosted by Community...
Newsletter Community Housing Aotearoa 18 August, 2016
Find the newsletter here: august 18 newsletter.pdf Several of you emailed us this cartoon from the New Zealand Herald on August 17 – has it struck a chord?