In this newsletter we announce the date for our upcoming AGM. We also read a profile on Wellington Homeless Women's Trust and learn about the new initiatives coming out of MSD.
The body representing Māori interests in Auckland wants a bigger push to build good-quality affordable housing.
The trust tasked with helping Queenstown Lakes residents into their own homes is going back to the drawing board to work out where the "sweet spot'' is for affordable housing contributions from developers.
Over 190 local Palmerston North families will be helped into a warm, dry place to stay through the Government’s social housing plans for the city.
Progressive Thinking: ten perspectives on housing contains articles on housing affordability and access, state housing and rental laws, architecture and history, housing policy analysis and broader reflections on what caused the current housing crisis.
The Ministry of Social Development is sending homeless families to one-room units in Kaeo, a town which is already facing severe economic deprivation and housing problems.
Wellington City Council is partnering with the University of Otago, Wellington, to launch a voluntary Rental Warrant of Fitness for minimum housing standards in Wellington, Mayor Justin Lester has announced.
Social Housing Minister Amy Adams says the Government plans to buy another two motels to put up homeless people. The new purchases come on top of the four motels already bought by the Ministry of Social Development for emergency housing, at a cost of $4 million.
Queenstown's council is considering more radical solutions to the town's housing crisis after the government's Special Housing Areas (SHAs) failed to bring down prices.
A contentious deal over Auckland Council-owned affordable housing land has been widened to include four possible buyers, after a spat over the price.