The Salvation Army's 10th annual 'state of the nation' report says youth offending and teen pregnancy have more than halved, jobs and real wages are rising, alcohol consumption and drink-driving are falling, and welfare rolls are the lowest since 2007. But it says homelessness "unseen in more than a generation", persistent child poverty and a record imprisonment rate point to the country "heading off the track".
We are excited to announce that in the 3rd quarter of 2016 we received information on 9,097 homes provided by the community housing sector. After subtracting out the Tamaki and Christchurch City portfolios, the total is 4,101 which exceeds the previous assessment of 3,681 homes in the 2014 Centre for Research, Evaluation and Social Assessment (CRESA) report.
Several reports have been recently released looking at New Zealand’s housing affordability for home ownership. These are the Massey University Home Affordability report quarterly survey December 2016 and the international Demographia report that shows Auckland is still the fourth most expensive city in the world.
The 2016 Child Poverty Monitor Technical Report provides the fourth consecutive annual report on indicators that assess aspects of child poverty in New Zealand and their implications for child wellbeing.
CHA has now released a research report examining the institutional settings required for community housing providers to deliver 1000 new homes per year for the next 10 years.
Waimahia Inlet is an affordable housing development located on the edge of the Manukau Harbour, 23km south of the Auckland CBD and 5km southwest of Manukau City centre. On completion, Waimahia Inlet will be Aotearoa’s largest third sector housing development with 295 dwellings, approximately 70% of these being either assisted homeownership or homes retained by community housing providers as affordable rental accommodation.
Here is the latest report from Housing New Zealand.
This survey has been set up by Community Housing Aotearoa to document the scale, activities and growth of the community housing sector.
By Shamubeel Eaqub in Housing Finance International; Autumn 2016; The state of housing the housing market in New Zealand.
While there are sufficient numbers of housing being built through the cycle, it is not accessible to all, says Shamubeel Eaqub in this article from Housing Finance International.
Managing urbanisation by looking after smaller as well as larger centres, clarifying the political power of local government, and clearly identifying greenhouse gas emission implications of city-based development, are among crucial issues identified in a report on New Zealand produced in time for a United Nations conference this month
