Safe and Affordable Housing for all

May 22, 2017 | News

The church leaders told the Prime Minister, “An insufficient supply of safe and affordable housing in New Zealand is contributing to a level of poverty that is fracturing the well-being of people and communities and hindering the educational progress of our children....

A guide to Māori housing support across Government

May 22, 2017 | News

It gives information on where to go for help to fix marae, information on te Puni Kōkiri’s Māori Housing Network, where to go for help with emergency accommodation or rental agreements, where to get home ownership help, and where to go to get help to become a...

Crown building project announced for Auckland

May 17, 2017 | News

Under the umbrella of their Crown Building Project, the Government will take down 8300 old HNZC homes in Auckland and replace them with 34,000 new purpose-built homes. Of this number 13,540 will be new social housing and 20,600 will be affordable and market homes.This...

Are the wrong kind of houses being built in Auckland?

May 16, 2017 | News

John Tookey, the head of Auckland University of Technology’s (AUT) built environment department, said the free market was not building the kind of homes the city needed. In a report looking at Auckland’s housing market from a construction perspective, Prof...

Emergency housing providers ionstructed not to talk to media

May 15, 2017 | News

Some providers received a directive from the ministry telling them not to talk to media without first talking to it, they told Checkpoint last week. According to Radio NZ, an email,with the subject ‘Media Protocol’, was sent by a regional contracts...

Pre-election housing policies

May 15, 2017 | News

Labour party congress discusses housing policy Sunday, 14 May 2017 1:49 pm | New Zealand Labour Party Press Release the Labour party wants to end tax breaks for speculators and invest in warm, healthy homes Labour will shut down tax breaks for speculators and use the...
New Housing Affordability Measure welcomed

New Housing Affordability Measure welcomed

May 11, 2017 | Research

CHA is pleased to see the release of the new Housing Affordability Measure, a tier one official statistic. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s (MBIE) new measure will allow the market to be monitored at a more detailed level and has been developed...

What budget 2017 has in store

May 9, 2017 | News

Bill English announced 10 new targets for Government to achieve and one of them is a target will be to achieve a 20 per cent reduction in the time it takes to house priority clients on the social housing register. Budget 2017 will include a $321 million Social...

Blenheim faces housing issues

May 9, 2017 | News

Peter McGhee has been living in a motel while state houses in Blenheim are boarded up More was spent on the Emergency Housing Special Needs Grants in this region than anywhere else in the South Island in the December quarter, when 340 grants were issued. In 2012,...