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The Property Institute wants LVR exemption for first home buyers

Property Institute of New Zealand Chief Executive, Ashley Church, has repeated his call for the Reserve Bank to exempt first home buyers from the Loan-to-value restrictions following news that more than one million kiwis are now locked out of home ownership.

Geoff Simmons on ghost houses in Queenstown

The focus and debate lately has been on Auckland, which is bursting at the seams with population growth and an average housing market topping $1m. However, there is one area of the country that is facing an even bigger affordability crisis – the Queenstown-Lakes District.

Northcote development to boost housing supply

The Government will redevelop 300 existing Housing New Zealand (HNZ) properties into about 1200 new homes in Northcote, Ministers Bill English and Dr Nick Smith have announced.

Government should address the demand side of housing crisis

Leading Environmental law firm, Berry Simons, is calling on the Government to consider the need to address housing demand, rather than focusing only on bringing more supply to the market, in its bid to curb Auckland’s severe housing shortage.

CHA newsletter 15 September, 2016

In this newsletter we have more information on events for the sector: NZCID Social Housing Funding Forum – 27 September in Auckland, National Māori Housing Conference, Social Investment in Community Housing: moving beyond traditional grant making and the panel discussion and CHA annual general meeting; plus research, news and events of interest to the community housing sector.

Housing situation now acute- Scott Figenshow in the news

CHA Executive Director , Scott Figenshow, was interviewed by Newshub and commented on how acute the housing situation has become. He says homelessness is now an "acute" problem that needs urgent attention. "We don't ask people to wait 30 weeks for heart surgery, do we? We shouldn't be asking people to wait in the housing system either."

$24.4m more for Auckland social housing

​The Government is giving an extra $24.4 million to community housing providers to increase the supply of social housing in Auckland. “We know the property market is extremely tight in Auckland at present, and it is no different for those organisations helping to house our most vulnerable citizens. This extra funding will allow community housing providers (CHPs) create more medium- to long-term social housing, and faster, where the need is most acute,” Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett says.

CHRA guidance notes

Guidance notes from the Community Housing Regulatory Authority are available on their website and cover areas such as: Social Landlord: What sets you apart; separation of services; mandatory documents for annual regulatory reporting; the suspension and revocation process.

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Insight: Full House – Homelessness & Big Families

Maria is exhausted. The solo-mother to seven children under 17 years-old has been searching for somewhere to call home for almost a year. Wearing a faded blue T-shirt and brown floral lavalava, she cups her hands in her lap and speaks softly about the difficulties she...

Landlord fined for non-compliant gas supply

Lina Liu, the landlord of two boarding houses, was taken to the Tenancy Tribunal by MBIE’s Tenancy Compliance and Investigations Team (TCIT) for failing to meet her responsibilities under the Residential Tenancies Act (RTA). “Following complaints of a gas leak at one...

UN supports call for a human rights based housing strategy

This support was issued by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which recently reviewed New Zealand’s progress in areas including housing, health and education and released its concluding observations. A human rights based strategy requires...

Renters getting raw deal from property managers

Consumer NZ head of research Jessica Wilson said tenants who dealt with a property manager were much more likely to report their home lacked adequate heating and had persistent mould. “Compared with private landlords, property managers were also more likely to delay...

​CHA says government needs community input to fix housing

Chief Executive Scott Figenshow today endorsed the United Nation’s report into New Zealand’s progress on housing, which backs a call for a human rights based national housing strategy. Such a strategy would require housing to be affordable, habitable, accessible and...

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