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.
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.
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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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A movement is growing, it started in California, and it wants to tackle the housing crisis which bedevils cities all over the world, by embracing YIMBYism.
A total of 33,576 new homes were consented in the year ended January 2019, the highest number of new homes consented in a year since early 1975, Stats NZ said today.
The first six homes in a pioneering new model designed to offer truly affordable homes in Queenstown are complete, with households set to move in from this week.
