We have prepared our submission on the MBIE fire safety draft design guide. The proposed design guide is of great interest to our members providing residential community housing.
Establishing an independent not for profit organisation, tasked with solving the City’s housing woes is crucial – and just one of the key actions identified in the first Auckland Housing Summit report.
In its report 'Taking Stock', The Salvation Army estimates New Zealand needs to build a minimum of 2000 social houses a year for at least the next decade just to meet demand.
New Zealand homes are frequently damp, mouldy and cold, and many Kiwis sleep in unheated bedrooms, putting their health at risk.
The substandard condition of New Zealand’s rental accommodation has renters and landlords divided in a new survey.
These pages from " The material wellbeing of NZ households: overview and key findings from the 2017 Household Incomes Report and the companion report using non-income measures (the 2017 NIMs Report) look at ongoing housing costs and housing quality.
This seminar will present key findings from a comprehensive study commissioned by BRANZ, into the private rental housing sector in four New Zealand cities, with a focus on Auckland.
The Mayor’s Housing Taskforce, an independent, cross sectoral group, was set up in October 2016 by the Mayor and Deputy Mayor to ensure critical experience and expertise was utilised to address one of the key strategic issues facing the city. CE of Community Housing Aotearoa, Scott Figenshow, was on this taskforce.
Housing affordability has occupied news headlines in New Zealand for several years now. A range of measures – such as falling home ownership rates, the decreasing number of first home buyers, the prevalence of speculators purchasing housing, and median price to median income ratios – suggest that buying a home has become harder for those not already on the property ladder, especially in Auckland and Queenstown.
As a part of the Aging Well National Science Challenge, this summit looked into housing for older people in a climate where an increasing number remain renters into old age.
