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Figures show Wellington is 3590 homes short of what it needs

Figures from the Wellington City Council provided to Stuff show that, in nine of the past 13 financial years, the number of dwellings built in the capital fell short of the estimated number required. By the end of last year, Wellington city was an estimated 3590 dwellings short of where it needed to be.

High cost of emergency housing special needs grant

In its first three months of availability, October to December 2016, 9,000 grants were made to 2,600 families needing Government’s new emergency housing grant. Government expected 1,400 homeless families to need the grants to pay for a week’s accommodation in a motel with an expected cost of $2million a year. Instead it spent nearly $8 million in three months.

A focus on youth homelessness

​On our doorstep, is a documentary made by students from AUT's master of human rights class that draws attention to the situation of youth homelessness.

A guide for the design and implementation of smokefree policies in social housing

Community and Public Health has developed a toolkit to assist social housing providers to implement smokefree policies in social housing settings. Increasingly, improving population health has become a shared goal across many sectors, including social housing, and a smokefree social housing policy can result in win-wins for tenants, housing providers, and the wider community.

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The establishment of affordable housing zones

In cities the Government could consider applying our own local model of the United States concept of rent controlled buildings although it appears the jury is out on its success. Horowhenua is a good case study because land and property developers have moved into the...

Benefit increase negatively affects housing eligibility

Jan Rutledge, general manager of De Paul House, Northcote. Photo: RNZ/Eva Corlett. A boost to the accommodation supplement last month was not enough to make private rental homes affordable for some, but the extra money people on the public housing wait list are now...

More housing for whānau in Northland

Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford and Māori Development Minister Nanaia Mahuta announced Government investment of $8.7 million in housing initiatives in Whangarei, Kaikohe and Kaitaia. The Ministers visited the Ōtangarei community this morning, which...

Housing First programme proves value in Auckland

“The Housing First Auckland collective was launched in March last year to end homelessness for 472 chronically homeless adults and families in Auckland,” Phil Twyford said. “That’s 227 people and their wider families that Housing First has changed the lives of....

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