Community Housing Aotearoa is welcoming the Government’s continued commitment to an approach that puts permanent housing at the centre of curbing chronic homelessness.
New Zealand's housing landscape is largely characterised by standalone homes and high density apartment typologies, particularly in Auckland - the epicentre of the housing 'crisis'. While intensification is a recognised solution to the housing supply shortage, there is a gap in the market for medium density dwellings to be delivered at scale.
Close to 1.6ha of land is for sale in rapidly developing central Albany with resource granted for 98 terraced houses but with potential for a higher density development.
A UN human rights committee is shocked by New Zealand's record on child poverty, inadequate housing, the incarceration rate, and violence, abuse and bullying.
It's not just mums with six kids to six different dads who are on the streets. It's not just non-working parents who struggle.
Christchurch City Council has celebrated the start of five new social housing units in Akaroa.
The Wellington Company and Te Tumu Kāinga today celebrated the upcoming construction of Paetutu: a high quality, affordable new neighbourhood development of 56 homes at 429 Jackson Street, Petone.
One year on from the Edgecumbe floods local whānau in ongoing and urgent need of a place to live will now benefit from new papakāinga housing, says Māori Development Minister Nanaia Mahuta.
Christchurch-based building company Spanbild has bought out Concision Panelised Technology partner Mike Greer Homes (MGH), giving it control of a building panelisation factory in Rolleston.
The government plans to make it harder for councils to approve new homes and lifestyle blocks on productive land near urban areas.
