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Over the past three years the Community of Refuge Trust (CORT) has led 10 development projects providing modern, warm, brand-new homes for people.
Ruapehu District Council, Te Puni Kokiri / Ministry of Maori Development and the Taumarunui Community Kokiri Trust are celebrating the Trust’s purchase of the derelict Heritage Court apartments on Huia St in Taumarunui that will see them demolished and replaced with new community housing.
Wellington’s public housing is set to get a major boost with Housing New Zealand and Wellington City Council proposing a partnership agreement for the government agency to take a long-term lease of the city’s Arlington complex.
Local Government New Zealand is disappointed by the Government’s blanket decision to not renew the Special Housing Area (SHA) legislation, saying the policy needed refinement not a red line through it.
Read this great article by Jess Berentson-Shaw.
The latest figures provided by the Auckland community housing sector show that the current settings for delivering new affordable homes aren’t working.
Only a quarter of the Government's extra public housing places in Auckland are newly-built, permanent houses.
The Government will not be extending the former government’s Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas legislation because it has failed to make housing more affordable, Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford announced today.
The first ten KiwiBuild homes to be built in Northland are in the new suburb of Kotātā Heights in Whangarei, and are ready to buy now.
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