The United Nations has supported calls for New Zealand to adopt a human rights based national housing strategy.
Tenants who rent through a property management company are significantly more likely to experience problems, a Consumer NZ survey has found.
Community Housing Aotearoa says the government will fail if it only listens to government departments in producing a national housing strategy.
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The small accommodation supplement increases made under National’s 2017 budget are finally being implemented by the Labour Government. But beneficiaries are still left wanting for basic items such as food.
Affordable housing for 50 Queenstown families has been given the green light, with the local housing trust securing finance to invest in Frankton’s new apartment development.
A new development of 36 public housing units specifically designed for Asian seniors will open in Panmure today, says Ethnic Communities and Associate Housing and Urban Development Minister Jenny Salesa.
Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford is pausing periodic tenancy reviews of public housing tenants while he considers whether the groups of tenants exempt from the process should be widened.
The government's KiwiBuild policy to build 100,000 affordable homes within 10 years has taken a step forward with the announcement it will develop between 3,000 and 4,000 homes on land it will acquire close to the north-western motorway end of the Waterview tunnel, on land currently owned by tertiary education provider Unitec Institute of Technology.
Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford announces purchase of ‘nearly 30ha of prime urban land in the heart of Auckland’ for thousands of new homes.
