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.
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.
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.
Housing Minister Phil Twyford is believed to be working on a shared equity scheme for home buyers.
Entrepreneur Charles Ma is building a billion dollar hosing development in south Auckland.
A guide to designing accessible public buildings was released by Minister for Building and Construction Jenny Salesa and Minister for Disability Issues Carmel Sepuloni today.
KiwiBuild has today issued updated figures for the number of KiwiBuild homes under contract, construction, committed to be built, completed or sold.
