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Scott Figenshow on housing policy under new government leadership

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.

Affordable housing on offer for Bay hapu

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.

Preparedness and resilience: how we respond to a future earthquake

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.

December 1, 2016 Newsletter Community Housing Aotearoa

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.

Collaboration gives families new homes

The first of 14 families have begun moving into a new block of apartments in Auckland which are the result of a partnership between government agencies and community housing providers, Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett says.

Young Kiwis struggling with high mortgage debt

New data from the Reserve Bank shows that the average first home buyer is borrowing a record $390,000, up by 43 per cent from $273,000, in just two years. LVR rules requiring a 20 per cent minimum deposit mean the average first home now costs around half a million dollars.

Bill to help young people into home ownership launched

The Green Party is launching a plan today to help people struggling with student loans get into their first home. Green MP Gareth Hughes’s Student Loan Scheme First Home Repayment Diversion Bill was launched today, the latest in a series of Green Party policies to address the housing crisis.