We have all expected these reviews to commence once government announced the alternative settings for the Community Housing Entity form of tax exemption. Information on the CHE provisions can be found here. As this issue moves forward, CHA is commissioning sector-wide...
The Housing Minister insists foreign buyers are “not having a significant effect” on the Auckland housing market and rejects Labour’s claims offshore Chinese buyers could be buying as much as 30 % of houses.See more commentary here.
The number of people in their early 30s who own their own home has dropped from half in 2001 to about a third. Read this Radio New Zealand Insight Programme article.
The Council is considering options that would allow it greater flexibility in the future ownership, management and development of its social housing portfolio. Key components of the Council’s proposals: • Establish as a limited liability company an entity, in which...
New Zealand Architecture Awards acknowledge the year’s best buildings, and this year, Wellington City Council has received an award for its Central Park Apartments, an existing social housing complex transformed by Novak + Middleton. “The strategy of fragmenting the...
CHA acknowledges that the purpose of this Bill is to ensure that New Zealand significantly improves work place health and safety conditions through a set of world class standards of protection for its citizens. CHA has concerns that the language of the Bill goes too...
“New Zealanders living in remote rural areas face a number of unique and often difficult challenges, including the cost and availability of decent housing,” Associate Housing Minister Tariana Turia says. “That is why the Government has allocated funding to...
CHA urges you to speak with the commercial lending manager of your bank to understand how your organisation might be impacted. Under the proposed new reporting requirement to take effect on July 1, 2014, “If the bank has recourse to, or is aware of, more than five...
E rere kau mai te awa nui mai i te Kahui maunga ki Tangaroa Ko au te awa ko te awa ko au. The river flows From the mountains to the sea I am the river The river is me. We have a phrase at home which sums up our relationship to te awa tupua – the Whanganui River....
NZ Herald article explores the issues raised in the Community Housing Aotearoa, Auckland Community Housing Providers’ Network and Te Matapihi policy paper ‘A way forward for stock transfers’ released on 16 April 2014. The article provides examples of...