Increase in housing costs outpaces household income

Nov 28, 2014 | News

The latest Household Economic Survey (Income) shows average annual household income rose 9.1 percent in the two years to June 2014, from $81,227 to $88,579. In the same period, average household weekly spending on housing costs rose 11.1 percent, from $256 to $284....

Unitec Community Development Conference 18 – 20 February 2015

Nov 27, 2014 | Events

Major themes include placemaking, community economic development, diverse communities and re-claiming democracy, with quality assured papers, poster presentations and practical skills workshops. Peter Jeffries, CEO CORT Community Housing, will be hosting a workshop on...

CHA Discussion with Charities Services

Nov 27, 2014 | News

We asked for clarification on what the individual organisations could expect in terms of reviews of their charitable status. We expressed significant frustration in the sector- that you have little time or resource to respond to a review, the lack of clear criteria on...

Briefing to incoming minister on MSD Website

Nov 27, 2014 | Documents

Briefing to Incoming Ministers – MSD has released their briefing at the following link: http://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/corporate/briefing-incoming-minister/2014/index.html

CHA’s summary of Housing New Zealand Statement of Intent

Nov 27, 2014 | News

The publications are available at the following link: http://www.hnzc.co.nz/our-publications The Statement of Performance Expectations, originally due in July/August; does not appear to predict any significant impact in the current financial year (to June 2015) of...

Insight: The State of Social Housing

Nov 24, 2014 | News

As the government moves to sell off more than twenty thousand state houses, many church groups and Iwi say they are keen to take them on. But they want the properties at a discount and they don’t want to lumped with the dumps. Radio New Zealand’s Housing...