The plant will initially be capable of pre-building some 500 homes a year, with capacity to grow output quickly to 1,000 homes annually, Fletcher Living chief executive Steve Evans told BusinessDesk. KiwiBuild aims to build 100,000 affordable homes during the next...

Wellington City Council is teaming up with developers to convert an inner-city building into "affordable apartments" in an effort to tackle the capital's growing housing crisis - at no additional cost to ratepayers. The pilot partnership is understood to be the first...