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.
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.
Fixing the housing crisis in Auckland is simple, according to Leonie Freeman. She knows how to do it. But, asks Simon Wilson of the Spinoff asks- will anyone let her? These are the steps Leone has identified:
Earlier this year the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) sent out an open Request for Proposals (RFP) to provide 1,000 additional social housing places in Auckland’s high demand areas, by December 2019. The closing date for submissions for this RFP has now been extended from 25 November 2016 to 25 November 2017.
