As a part of the 2017 Budget $27 million will go towards supporting marae and helping more whānau to find affordable housing.
The Manawatu Tenants' Union is demanding Government action on ballooning state housing lists with a public protest.
Representative church leaders have met with the Prime Minister and Government ministers to ask for more action in the areas of immigration, housing and social investment. Their views are influenced by the experience of their church congregations and church based social agencies in most New Zealand communities.
This booklet is a guide to Māori housing support available to you, your whānau and community from Te Puni Kōkiri and other government agencies.
On 16 May Social Housing Minister Amy Adams announced plans to build 34,000 new houses on Crown land in Auckland over the next ten years.
John Tookey, the head of Auckland University of Technology's (AUT) built environment department, said the free market was not building the kind of homes the city needed.
The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) has apologised to emergency housing groups after one of its managers tried to gag them from speaking to the media.
This article looks at the various policies on housing that different political parties are campaigning on pre-election 2017.
Budget 2017 announcement is to be on May 25. The Prime Minister announced in his pre-budget speech that over the next four Budgets the Government will allocate a further $11 billion toward capital infrastructure.
Like many other parts of the country Marlborough is experiencing housing shortages as almost $100,000 a month is being spent on to house people struggling to find other accommodation in Blenheim.
