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The Te Whakaruruhau Report establishes the peak body services to the Homelessness Sector by Te Matapihi he Tirohanga...

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New Housing Affordability Measure welcomed

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.

New research on positive outcomes in affordable housing

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.

Community housing providers, procurement and the building industry

This report looks at the procurement processes and relationship that community housing providers have with the building industry through in-depth interviews with 17 community housing providers who have built new residential dwellings either on green-fields or re-developed sites since 2014.

Disability and housing conditions

Disability and housing conditions: 2013 compares housing characteristics of disabled and non-disabled people living in private dwellings using data from the 2013 New Zealand Disability Survey (NZDS).

Annual rent rises hit low-spending households

Beneficiaries and low-spending households experienced the highest inflation over the past year, Statistics NZ reported. From the December 2015 quarter to the December 2016 quarter their overall costs increased 1.4 percent. This was more than double the rate of inflation experienced by New Zealand's highest spenders (up 0.6 percent).

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September 2016 quarterly social housing register

The register provides information on: the number of people on the register and comparison to September 2015 how many people are Priority A or B the most common type of application, eg single adult the most common age group and ethnicity of people applying the number...

Inequality a result of housing costs says new report

Inequality after housing costs is significantly higher than before housing costs. While incomes have risen for high and low earners, the rising cost of housing especially hits the poor. The report: The Inequality Paradox: Why inequality matters even though it has...

Are we really serious about a community housing sector

The Trust saw an increase in the scale of supply-side initiatives, including increasing the size of the community housing sector, as the most critical policy interventions needed to address issues of housing affordability and the increasing inability of state housing...

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Research on housing WOF for Wellington and Dunedin

He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme based at the University of Otago, Wellington, has been funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand to study the effects of introducing a rental housing WoF. A rental WoF would require basic standards for...

Homeless baby boomers

The organisation has released new research estimating that by 2030, 200,000 retirement-aged people won't own a house and will be unable to afford rent. Over the next decade, the numbers needing state help to cover their rent was expected to rise considerably: from...

New research on homeless from Citizens Advice Bureau

Their in-depth analysis of over 2000 client enquiries about emergency accommodation shows vulnerable families, pregnant women and children living in cars and garages, even after seeking assistance from the Ministry of Social Development and Housing New Zealand. Many...

Invisible in the supercity

"The social housing needed by these people is not currently available in sufficient quantity and present Government actions are not delivering sufficient affordable homes,” says the Salvation Army. For families without housing, it is common for them to be homeless for...

South Auckland school researches mould in local houses

The key results from the project 18 out of 22 homes were mouldy, and all had the right temperature and humidity to grow mould; the mould was readily recovered in a form that was likely to cause harm; three different yeasts described as "emerging human pathogens" were...

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