​ Government Challenged to Get Low-Income Kiwis into Homes

May 6, 2019 | News

KiwiBuy is a campaign to convince the Government to adopt and fund the range of shared equity and rent to buy programmes run by community housing providers. KiwiBuy campaign director Campbell Roberts said “Three families each week move into new homes, built for them...

Minister congratulates Ākarana Sarah whānau on housing

Apr 30, 2019 | News

Minister for Māori Development and Associate Minister of Housing Hon Nanaia Mahuta congratulated whānau from Bridge Pa, near Hastings for their vision of building homes on their ancestral land. Te Puni Kōkiri invested $376,661 towards infrastructure costs to assist...

Major affordable housing project in the pipeline for Arrowtown

Apr 29, 2019 | News

Last Thursday the Queenstown Lakes District Council approved a 3.6ha site on Jopp Street to be assigned to the Trust to build 65 homes for a mixed tenure development. The land has been earmarked for housing since 2003, when the local community identified the site as...

New homes for Auckland families in need

Apr 29, 2019 | News

“These 18 two-bedroom and five four-bedroom warm, dry homes on Chippendale Crescent have been designed to meet the needs of families in the area,” Phil Twyford. “They are close to a number of schools, the Beach Haven ferry to Auckland CBD, and are 4km from the...

Kiwi leaders stepping up to sleep rough

Apr 18, 2019 | News

Influential leaders from business and community are signing up to “sleep rough” at The Lifewise Big Sleepout on one of the coldest, longest nights of winter – Thursday 20th June, 2019. The event will see business and community leaders and entrepreneurs coming together...

Government wipes debt for HNZ meth testing tenants

Apr 17, 2019 | News

“This is one more way we can right things for people who needed emergency housing and other MSD support after their Housing NZ tenancies ended because of erroneous meth contamination policies,” Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni says. “The Government has...

​ Govt will not implement a Capital Gains Tax

Apr 17, 2019 | News

“The Tax Working Group gave the Government, and the country, an opportunity to look at the fairness of our tax system and debate options for change,” Jacinda Ardern said. “All parties in the Government entered into this debate with different perspectives and, after...

Government told to walk the talk on green building standards

Apr 15, 2019 | News

Delegates and even fellow presenters at the Green property Summit in Auckland took the minister to task for the government not taking the lead by mandating high environmental standards for its own buildings – including schools, hospitals and social housing. “The...