Like other workplaces, community housing and homelessness services providers are required by the Ministry of Health to keep accurate and up to date records for the purpose of contact tracing. This is to help public health staff with contact tracing if it is later required.
Recommendations are based on PPE guidance from Ministry of Health and Ministry of Social Development. With any face to face contact, we recommend you call ahead before you meet or stand at a 2-metre distance and ask the following questions:
If you are not going to get closer than 2 metres, there is no need to wear PPE.
Housing and jobs – Budget 2020 CHA analysis.
Public Housing Funding Review - Meeting with Community Housing Providers - 13 May 2020
An analysis for the 2020/21 Budget released by the government on 14 May 2020.
Budget 2020 - what does it mean for CHPs? Budget 2020 - CHA analysis, Operating safely at Alert Level 2 - guidance and video, sources
Upcoming sector meeting, He Korowai Trust: Life during lockdown in emergency accommodation, Being mindful of tenant wellbeing, NILS extended to include migrants working in New Zealand, Public housing funding report.
Government’s housing Budget announcement is half of what is needed.
“The Government’s announcement of an additional 8000 public and transitional houses falls well short of what’s needed to fix New Zealand’s housing crisis,” says Scott Figenshow, Chief Executive of Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA).
What are we rushing back to? The non-government charitable sector request:
Please Press Pause before we lose everything we’ve discovered together through this crisis.
Move to Alert Level 2 from Thursday, Video: 'Are you well today?' The questions to keep asking, Upcoming sector meeting, HUD to release updated guidance, Essential workers struggling with over-crowding at home, Public housing funding report, Shovel-ready projects and the CHP sector pipeline: part of an affordable housing-led recovery, Shaping our new normal - pausing to think about changes that work, In the news.
Video: Auckland City Mission helping people into emergency and transitional accommodation
More than 110 people have come through the Auckland City Mission’s doors in the past few weeks to access emergency housing, says Helen Robinson, the Mission’s General Manager of Social and Health Services.
