Queenstown’s pioneering Secure Home programme launched

Mar 1, 2019 | News

One of the recently constructed homes to go into the Secure Home programme at Cherwell Lane in Shotover Country. The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust has just completed construction on six new homes at Shotover Country, which are to go into the pilot scheme,...

The Shift Aotearoa Conference 2019

Mar 1, 2019 | Events

Community Housing Aotearoa and Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities are busy developing an exciting programme that is being updated regularly on the conference website. The Shift Aotearoa Conference 2019 will bring housing sector actors together to spark...

Privatise inspection of new housing developments: Fletcher

Mar 1, 2019 | News

The time it takes to consents and the uncertainty of the consenting process are two major obstacles to housing development, he says. Speaking after joining a panel presentation at a conference in Auckland on residential development, Evans says the process needs to...

​Home consents hit 44-year high

Mar 1, 2019 | News

“The number of new homes consented this year is at its highest level since the mid-1970s,” construction statistics manager Melissa McKenzie said. “However, the population was only around 3 million in the 1970s, compared with nearly 5 million today.” See Are we there...

REINZ calls for financial support for landlords

Feb 26, 2019 | News

REINZ is very supportive of the proposed healthy homes standards, but this needs to be implemented in a way that finds a balance for landlords rather than causing them to withdraw from the market given the raft of legislative changes currently in the market. Bindi...

Healthy Home Standards means better houses for vulnerable

Feb 26, 2019 | News

This is about saving lives of young children and older people especially, who are made ill by the condition of their homes and die as a result. This is about helping children stay well so they can attend school and improve their education. This is about ensuring those...

The Lifewise Big Sleepout is back

Feb 26, 2019 | News

The event will see businesses, entrepreneurs and community leaders coming together to raise funds that will go towards Lifewise’s work for ending homelessness. Stripped of their creature comforts, Lifewise Big Sleepout participants will battle the elements spending a...

Government Rental Homes Standards: Green Building Council

Feb 25, 2019 | News

“Everyone who wants to fix this, and help make our homes healthy, warm and dry places to thrive in, to build lifelong happy memories in, will welcome this announcement as a much needed shift towards a better, kinder New Zealand. “But today’s announcement is not quite...