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The Lifewise Big Sleepout is back

The 2019 Lifewise Big Sleepout will take place on New Zealand’s iconic Eden Park, on one of the coldest, longest nights of winter – Thursday 20th June, 2019.

REINZ calls for financial support for landlords

Following yesterday’s announcement from Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford, REINZ is calling for the Government to consider providing landlords with financial support to help meet the costs of complying with the new healthy homes standards to make rental properties warmer and drier.

Government Rental Homes Standards: Green Building Council

Responding to today’s government announcement about the healthy homes standards, intended to raise the all-too-often poor quality of New Zealand’s rental homes, Andrew Eagles, head of the Green Building Council, said: “Far, far too many New Zealanders live in homes that just aren’t good enough, that are unhealthy. Too many of our children are ending up in hospital due to terrible, unacceptable housing.

REINZ questions whether CGT will improve long-term costs

Following today’s announcement from the Tax Working Group that it recommends the Government introduce a Capital Gains Tax (CGT) from 1 April 2021 at an individual’s marginal tax rate, the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) is questioning whether implementing a CGT will improve long term housing affordability.

Mike Greer to build over 100 KiwiBuild homes

Major residential developer Mike Greer has partnered with KiwiBuild to build more than 100 KiwiBuild homes in West Auckland and Christchurch – the first for Canterbury, Minister of Housing and Urban Development Phil Twyford has announced.

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​ Government Challenged to Get Low-Income Kiwis into Homes

KiwiBuy is a campaign to convince the Government to adopt and fund the range of shared equity and rent to buy programmes run by community housing providers. KiwiBuy campaign director Campbell Roberts said “Three families each week move into new homes, built for them...

Submission on homelessness in Hawke’s Bay

We are particularly concerned about reports of families / whānau being moved around motels in the area to accommodate tourists, leaving children / tamariki and young people / rangitahi detached from communities, schools and health care. As social workers know well,...

Minister congratulates Ākarana Sarah whānau on housing

Minister for Māori Development and Associate Minister of Housing Hon Nanaia Mahuta congratulated whānau from Bridge Pa, near Hastings for their vision of building homes on their ancestral land. Te Puni Kōkiri invested $376,661 towards infrastructure costs to assist...

Major affordable housing project in the pipeline for Arrowtown

Last Thursday the Queenstown Lakes District Council approved a 3.6ha site on Jopp Street to be assigned to the Trust to build 65 homes for a mixed tenure development. The land has been earmarked for housing since 2003, when the local community identified the site as...

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CHA newsletter 17 November, 2016

Also included in this edition is information on: the $300 million funding for emergency housing, the National Policy Statement on Urban Development and the latest annual report from Housing NZ. Read the newsletter here: 17 November 2016.pdf

CHA newsletter 3 November 2016

You'll also find more information on: Responding to Indigenous Homelessness in Australia and New Zealand, the latest edition of Parity magazine RFP for ‘better outcomes’ funding closes 18 November Recommendations for methamphetamine contamination clean-up New housing...

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