Newsletter 16 November 2017
16 November 2017.pdfIs pre-fabrication the answer?
Photo/ ANNA PRICE Andrew Booker, Housing NZ general manager of business innovation and development, expects prefabrication and off-site manufacturing to be over 50 per cent of the houses built in the next two to three years. In this Stuff article Pamela Bell of Prefab...Indigneous co-housing development for Flaxmere
Reported by Maori Television. “What’s different about this to a social housing project is this is about housing development and moving a whanau from out of those social housing situations into a home ownership situation,” says Mike Paku chairman of...Minister welcomes call for modernising tenancy laws
ActionStation and Renters United delivered the open letter which contains recommendations from the People’s Review of Renting. Action Station spokesperson Rick Zwaan says, “So there was just real heartbreaking stories of people on low incomes, Māori and...Atareira Easy Access Housing
Background The relationship between housing and recovery from mental illness has been recognised in New Zealand in a number of reports and discussion papers[i]. The Mental Health Commission (1999)[ii] describes this relationship as follows: “The provision of adequate,...Community housing sector welcomes new data on social housing
In our press release about the latest Social Housing Quarterly report Scott Figenshow is quoted as saying: ”Yesterday’s release shows that the Ministry of Social Development is continuing progress toward more open and transparent information sharing,” says Scott...Housing First featured on The Nation
Nicola Kean of Newshub takes a look at the programme, and talks to some of those it’s helped. Watch the video on Newshub page here.Homelessness in Aotearoa New Zealand 2017 – Parity magazine
brings together the specialist community focused on homelessness and showcases the expertise within the country, documenting the progress and successes we’ve made in addressing homelessness while clarifying the challenges that remain. Parity Vol30-08 (October) –...