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CHA Membership Renewals, severe weather event response update, update on Conference 2023: Registrations now open, webinar on housing for youth leaving care and latest news. Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) Newsletter March 6, 2023

Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) Newsletter February 20, 2023

Feb 20, 2023 | Newsletters

CHA severe weather event response update, MBIE Building Performance information on flood events, Community Support Package details, Conference 2023: Registrations now open, Round two of the Affordable Rental Pathway opens, Sector Call on the Draft Methamphetamine...

Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) Newsletter February 7, 2023

Feb 7, 2023 | Newsletters

CHA Flood response update, Community Housing Sector wants funding and policy certainty, Round two of the Affordable Rental Pathway opens on 27 February 2023, Community Housing Aotearoa | Sector Call on the Draft Methamphetamine Regulations, National Māori Housing...

Community Housing Aotearoa newsletter – January 25, 2023

Jan 26, 2023 | Newsletters

Welcome to our latest newsletter. We cover the latest staff news, including the arrival of our new CEO Paul Gilberd, give the latest CHA Conference update, plus highlight legislation changes. Community Housing Aotearoa newsletter – January 25, 2023

Community Housing Aotearoa newsletter – December 12, 2022

Dec 12, 2022 | Newsletters

Welcome to our latest newsletter. We cover the latest staff news, we seek feedback on our Conference topics, plus highlight legislation changes and a number of community and partner events. Community Housing Aotearoa newsletter – December 12, 2022

Submissions

Methamphetamine contamination draft guidelines issued

Feb 16, 2017 | Submissions

The new standards will have major implications for the way social landlords deal with the testing of properties for methamphetamine, both manufacture and use. It will also affect the remediation techniques used and has implications for both policies and procedures for...

HNZ housing stock transfer in Christchurch

Feb 8, 2017 | Submissions

Here are the presentations from Treasury and MSD. MSD 20170201 Purchasing Strategy Presentation - CHCH.pdf TSY Stock Tsfr 2 Feb 2017 TWCHPN.pdf CHA CEO, Scott Figenshow, says "We learned a lot about the crown retained investment and how it can work to provide equity...

Update on Cross-party inquiry into homelessness

Sep 6, 2016 | Submissions

Submissions will initially be heard by the inquiry at four locations: Te Puea Marae in Auckland, Tauranga, Wellington and Christchurch between the end of August and early September. Read more about the process here. Read the two-parts of the CHA and He Kainga Oranga...

Proposed Charities Act could remove the right to appeal

Aug 3, 2016 | Submissions

Update on progress of the bill: On Wednesday morning Marianne from Action station went to Parliament to present in person Action Stations crowd-sourced submission on the proposed changes to charities law. The Chair of the Select Committee, Ruth Dyson, asked her to...

CHA submission on Incorporated Societies Act

Jun 29, 2016 | Submissions

CHA have two areas of concern in the bill, these relate to: 1. changes to the number of members a society must have to register an incorporated society 2. the number of days to appeal decisions to the High Court. You can read the submission here: CHA submission Inc...

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Human Rights Commission points to insecure rentals in New Zealand

Dec 11, 2017 | Reports & Articles

Reported by Stuff, the Human Rights Commission report that the private rental market is forcing low-income Kiwis to move too often.In their briefing to incoming Justice Minister Andrew Little the Human Rights Commission (HRC) point to housing as a serious human rights...

Report on the Getting Ready workshop 23 November

Nov 28, 2017 | Reports & Articles

Four areas were identified as key for the sector to focus on over the next 100 days. Participants felt strongly that an offer from the community housing sector be made to help activate KiwiBuild. The four areas are: 1)Central purchasing / procurement at...

MSD Housing Quarterly Report: September 2017

Nov 9, 2017 | Reports & Articles

Read the report here: Housing-Quarterly-Report-Sep2017.pdf Key facts - September overview ·For the September quarter MSD has spent $563 million on housing support. This year MSD will spend around $2.3 billion on providing New Zealanders with housing support ranging...

CHA 24 October community housing sector seminar

Nov 2, 2017 | Reports & Articles

We heard from Alan Johnson, Salvation Army Social Policy and Research Unit, on the Taking Stock report he produced earlier in the year, with discussion facilitated by Kay Saville-Smith of CRESA. Consensus was reached on the goal and the settings necessary to build the...

Housing Affordability Taskforce Report released

Oct 26, 2017 | Reports & Articles

DEBBIE JAMIESON/STUFF Members of the Queenstown Lakes Mayoral Housing Affordability Taskforce presenting their recommendations: chairman John MacDonald, Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust executive officer Julie Scott, Queenstown Lakes District Mayor Jim Boult,...

Research

Community Housing Data Supply Project

Nov 15, 2016 | Research

The survey framework was developed by CHA, Ministry of Social Development (MSD) and CRESA and will be updated quarterly on this website so we can see the change in the number of homes provided by the sector. MSD will incorporate the results to inform its purchasing...

Are we in danger of building socially stratified, exclusive cities of privilege?

Oct 13, 2016 | Research

Research into collective urban housing by Mark Southcombe, senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Architecture, suggests that there are proven international solutions which can help address the housing affordability crisis we are currently...

Housing supply data survey – update

Sep 27, 2016 | Research

These responses yielded some exciting results. The 20 community housing organisations who responded provided information on 2,225 homes across New Zealand with an occupancy rate of 98%. We observed great diversity in the types of housing being provided by the sector:...

Household incomes in New Zealand: Trends in indicators of inequality and hardship 1982 to 2015

Sep 15, 2016 | Research

Housing costs now take a greater proportion of household income especially for low-income households: up from 14% in the late 1980s to 20% in 2015 overall for under 65s[1] up from 29% to 54% on average for the bottom quintile, and 19% to 32% for Q2. Growing housing...

Number of housing consents doubled but is it enough?

Aug 29, 2016 | Research

The highest number on record was in the June 1974 year, when 13 new homes were consented for every thousand residents (compared with an average of nine for the decade). In the year ended June 2016, the regions that consented the most new homes per thousand residents...

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