A few weeks ago, we saw the blessing of the final homes to be occupied at the Waimahia housing development. Five years of collective effort has transformed 16ha of green pasture at Weymouth into a 1200 strong community living in 295 homes.
A Crown-Iwi partnership is being explored that could form a significant part of the solution to Wellington’s housing woes, with an MoU being signed between mana whenua and the government that is investigating the potential for affordable homes built on the site.
Accessible Properties (APNZL) shares the concerns of Community Housing advocates that the current Government policy to sign-up for-profit developers as public housing providers is a recipe for disaster.
The present Government has no greater task than the need to restore home-ownership to a socially desirable level. The previous Government's greatest mistake was to tolerate hyper-inflation of housing for too long.
Government won’t get the skilled construction industry employees it needs for KiwiBuild and other long term housing projects while its tertiary education framework treats trades qualifications as second class citizens.
Building and Housing Minister Phil Twyford has set a goal of 6400 new state houses in the next four years - and he wants non-profit groups to build 30 per cent of them.
More than 40 Kaikōura families are in desperate need of a home while seven emergency housing units on the beachfront sit empty, not having been occupied in almost a year.
Three new medium-density housing developments in Lower Hutt are attracting huge interest from buyers, indicating that what Kiwis want in a home is changing.
As Cabinet ministers prepare to discuss the troubled KiwiBuild programme, the former head of the programme says his team was on target because they focused on targets, "not building a new ministry".
Community groups have given a boost to the Government’s new insulation programme Warmer Kiwi Homes, meaning in some parts of the country low income homeowners will be able to insulate their homes for free, Minister Megan Woods has announced.
