At the recent Community Housing Aotearoa conference in Wellington Mike Fox provided a short presentation outlining why the construction industry is finding it impossible to supply affordable housing. Mike says that without political ownership or a major overhaul of the current regulatory processes affordable housing will never be delivered. Here is his address which summarises the housing development industries 30 year journey to unaffordability.
Why are Māori and Pacific homeownership rates declining? Rau Hoskins of peak body for Māori Housing, Te Mataphihi, talks to Radio New Zealand on why this has happened.
The homes earmarked for Opal Drive would be the same design as these homes also built for transitional housing, at Luke Street in Auckland.
A call for contributors to the Parity edition of Homelessness in Aotearoa New Zealand October 2017
Lisa Owen interviewed Consultant Peter Fa’afiu, Hurimoana Dennis, chair of Te Puea Marae and Major Campbell Roberts from the Salvation Army on the Nation.
Housing New Zealand Corporation (HNZ) are looking to partner with suppliers, service providers and/or developers in the market to deliver new and innovative solutions that contribute towards HNZ’s objectives of:
• increasing the pace and scale of housing supply, particularly in the Auckland region;
• improving the quality of our homes; and
• making best use of our homes.
On 1 April 2017, IHC subsidiary Accessible Properties Limited took over responsibility for 1138 former Housing New Zealand houses and tenancies in Tauranga for an initial 25-year term.
Three Community Housing Providers have been given the opportunity to present formal proposals to take over up to 2500 Housing New Zealand properties and tenancies in Christchurch, the Government announced today.
In this newsletter we recap the CHA Impact Conference. Held on June 7-9 at Te Papa in Wellington, it saw presentations from a number of international experts, Minister Alfred Ngaro, and an announcement by Wellington Mayor Justin Lester. We also congratulate the AHI awards winners and update Our Place.
The winners of the 2017 Australasian Housing Institute professional excellence in housing awards for New Zealand were announced last week.
