Minister Bennett's opening speech at our Conference can be found here.
Headline on the article:"Community Housing Providers need to be sustainable businesses".
Plans to bump people off the state housing list if they turn down too many properties are "an unwarranted attack on the country's most vulnerable people", Labour housing spokesman Phil Twyford says.
Legislation giving Government Ministers sweeping new powers to sell off state houses without the approval of Housing New Zealand is "unprecedented", social housing groups say.
Two community housing organisations have signed a formal Heads of Agreement to enhance the benefits of communities taking responsibility for social housing instead of the traditional state housing model.
Key presenter at the Community Housing Aotearoa - Impact Conference, Sam Tsemberis, talked to the media over the last few days on how we could address the homelessness issues in this country.
Christchurch City Council has celebrated another milestone in the rebuild of its social housing, with four new units opened in Richmond.
Community and Voluntary Sector Minister Jo Goodhew announced that 99% of the 2,500 charities that provide housing or accommodation, have had their charitable status confirmed.
The State Housing Action Network (SHAN) led a protest in Wellington yesterday against the sale of state housing by the Government.
Connecting the dots on community housing. Community housing providers are converging on Wellington next week to put a plan before the Government to get more Kiwis into warm, dry, affordable homes.
