KiwiBuild pre-qualification opens
From today, aspiring homeowners can apply online at kiwibuild.govt.nz to determine if they are eligible to enter a ballot for a KiwiBuild home. Phil Twyford says the opening of the pre-qualification process is good news for New Zealanders who are locked out of the...He was ‘chronically homeless’. Now Michael Apanui has a home and a job
Iain McGregor/STUFF The Christchurch bus interchange. The footpaths under High St store verandas. A now-empty Peterborough St lot. All three of these properties were once places where Michael Apanui slept. Now the 45-year-old has a newly renovated home in New Brighton...Rent arrears, a big issue for the rental property industry
“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...Meth-testing compensation claims by Housing NZ tenants
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...
The homeless chap with the cat
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...