The first stages of a new emergency housing development have been officially opened in Auckland’s Otahuhu, giving more families a warm and safe place to stay in times of need.
Here is the latest edition of the newsletter with news and events and articles about New Zealand's community housing sector.
A news item from last week strikes a note of concern about how far testers are recommending landlords and new owners to go to rectify contamination after signs of P use in properties
We are pleased to see that Government has released the December 2015 report titled “Findings of a review into the implementation of the Governments Social Housing Reforms”
The second phase of MBIE’s Residential Tenancies Act summer campaign has launched and focuses on targeting student renters.
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.
Housing New Zealand has evicted tenants from nearly 1000 state homes in the past two years, after finding they could afford private rentals.
The most frequently evicted tenants were couples with children.
The Wellington City Council will build 750 new units of social and affordable housing in the next 10 years, the mayor has announced.
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.
Oasis is an emergency housing service in the Hutt Valley. Please call them on 04 566 1601.
Their address is Suite 208, 2nd Floor, Hutt City Dental Centre, 14 Laings Road, Lower Hutt.
