The fourth biennial National Māori Housing Conference 2016 was held at the ASB Baypark Arena, Tauranga and hosted by Tauranga Moana. The theme of the Conference was “Mā whero ma pango ka oti ai te mahi” (Collaboration and Strategic Relationships).
This Purchasing Strategy contains the latest information on how, and where the Ministry expects to fund social housing tenancies through the income-related rent subsidy (IRRS). They have signalled they will be working to secure another 3,800 social housing places nationwide by 2019/20, almost half of which need to be one-bedroom places.
A variation on the Auckland IRRS plus capital funds scheme is now available from MSD in the five additional communities of Whangarei, Hamilton, Wellington, Lower Hutt and Christchurch.
A new development in Auckland is an example of community housing providers and agencies working together to house vulnerable families. The new 15-unit apartment block for transitional housing in Glen Eden is the result of a collaboration between Housing New Zealand and providers VisionWest, Monte Cecilia and Airedale Properties, with support from LifeWise.
Leonie Freeman introduced her Auckland housing plan at the CHA seminar on 26 October where we heard how she wanted to bring together multiple stakeholders to address housing affordability in Auckland.
In August, TRC issued an invitation for expressions of interest for the first phase of a programme to redevelop approximately 1000 existing social homes into approximately 2500 new social, affordable and private market houses in northern Tāmaki.
Scott Figenshow talked to Radio New Zealand about housing policy under the incoming Prime Minister Bill English. In this interview, Scott says we need to see a long term pipeline for affordable housing supply in line with the recent Strategic Lift report for 1,000 homes per year but that it doesn’t all need to come from Government.
Nga Potiki a Tamapahore Trust has formally launched Manawa - The Heart of Papamoa, at Mangatawa Marae, Tauranga. The 50 acre, residentially zoned development is on Te HouHou settlement land in Papamoa.
The recent earthquake focused our small, central Wellington team on thinking about how we might respond to a similar event in the future. In this article you can read how we are preparing ourselves as resilient workers and find links to earthquake preparedness resources.
In this newsletter we read about the Community Housing Provider Capacity report and the proposed social housing transfer in Christchurch. We provide some information on responding to a future earthquake and we look at some new research on Waimahia Inlet, a model for great community housing.
