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.
In this newsletter we see which 37 organisations are endorsing Our Place and learn more about the CHA IMPACT conference. Remember early bird closes tomorrow. We read more about The People’s Mental Health report and the latest figures from the social housing quarterly report that show the number on the social housing waiting list continues to increase.
The latest social housing quarterly report released last week shows that the number of people on the social housing register is still increasing and the amount spent on the emergency housing special needs grant has increased to $8.8million since it was set up last year.
Julie Scott from Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust was interviewed by TVNZ about the affect of Air B and B on housing in Queenstown on 12 April.
In this edition of the CHA newsletter we have information on the release of the EOI on the Christchurch stock transfer and a link to the Housing Foundation research that looks at moving people from social renting to housing independence – supporting the case for the middle of the housing continuum.
