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.
The 2017 CHA -IMPACT conference attracted 300 people and has been an important event for providing a mandate forward for CHA to seeing all New Zealanders well housed. Links to the media and presentations for this event can be found here.
Our submission on the Urban Development Authority bill prepared and submitted this month, sees the problems and solutions identified in the Bill’s discussion document and regulatory impact statement as generally correct.
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 independently by Statistics New Zealand and MBIE. It measures how much money households have left each week after meeting housing costs and sets the benchmark at 2013 figures.
Rental homes are more likely to be damp, musty and mouldy compared to owner-occupied ones, a new survey shows.
On Wednesday 12 April the New Zealand Housing Foundation (NZHF) publicly released three new research reports on the benefits of transitioning people into housing tenures that offer affordable ownership outcomes. The reports have been written by the Family Centre Social Policy Research Unit (FCSPRU), Business and Economic Research Limited (BERL), and Nexus Research.